Examples of 'second-rate' in a sentence
Meaning of "second-rate"
Second-rate describes something of lesser quality or importance compared to others
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- Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 80–98 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 700–750, and weighing approximately 2,200 tons burthen.
- Of mediocre quality; not first-rate.
- A second-rate ship of the line.
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Second-rate medical treatment if anything at all.
To give me an education at a second-rate public school.
Only second-rate scientists settled there.
You used to be just a second-rate officer.
I am a second-rate playwright and we all know that.
Aslongas younever wear anything second-rate.
We were like second-rate officers compared to him.
They trusted a conniving second-rate realtor.
You are just second-rate mimics of a higher organism.
It beats a lifetime career as a second-rate thug.
Any second-rate prosecutor could take it apart.
If he wants to join a bunch of second-rate artists.
Of a second-rate mountie who runs from a challenge.
We do not want these second-rate teachers.
A second-rate nation and make it world class.
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He is but a trash from a second-rate school.
You have second-rate instincts and no ideas.
He has found himself in a second-rate champagne.
Being a second-rate bouncer is not what tiggers like best.
That girl was sold to us by a second-rate noble.
This gives second-rate status to the women.
And the landscaping is decidedly second-rate.
There are a lot of second-rate experts in the world.
If you are content to remain an obscurity at a second-rate university.
Trying to push second-rate paper like this.
Stop thinking of yourself as being second-rate.
For precisely how second-rate he considers you.
My point of view is just pushed aside as second-rate.
English can only be a second-rate fiddle for us.
This second-rate sea serpent can not scare me.
I have devoted my life to second-rate science fiction.
How much second-rate dogshit did you have to buy.
A fellow like you deserves a second-rate princess.
If he was a second-rate artist he would not have died broke.
You are giving me that second-rate pill idea.
The second-rate camouflage hiding it never stood a chance.
But as the companion of a second-rate soldier of fortune.
And despite all your fantasies you are second-rate.
She is married to a second-rate prosecutor.
If my heritage involves playing footsie with some second-rate.
The hideout of a second-rate mind is behind a wall of data.
Our lives in the hands of a second-rate actor.
We are building in second-rate manufacturing because of the low dollar.
You guys are just a bunch of second-rate hams.
You and your second-rate paper can kiss my ass.
I do not need to look twice at second-rate forgeries.
But an old second-rate doctor would never have an accident.
This is why you are just second-rate amateurs.
My second-rate status in this family … has no bearing on my professional responsibilities.
We saw many famous stars in second-rate movies.
