Words similar to second-rate

Example sentences for: second-rate

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The cover story repeats the shopworn criticism that Microsoft is evil because its second-rate software crushes better programs.
Mike Barnicle, a second-rate Roykoesque columnist, was fired from the Boston Globe for blending fiction and fact in a way that Royko did routinely.
‘The way to encourage science is to get the best people and set them free to express their creativity while they are young, which means bring them into the best laboratories—don't let them get entrained in hierarchies of deference to second-rate people,’ says May.
Cast her in a second-rate movie as the woman who steals Ted Danson from his wife, Mary Tyler Moore, and suddenly you're thinking, without mistresses, who'd ever realize the falseness of a false marriage?
Bush : No second-rate children, no second-rate dreams.