Words similar to second-rate

Example sentences for: second-rate

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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.
According to the mythology, Coppola was given third-rate scripts and managed to transform them into second-rate entertainment like The Cotton Club , Gardens of Stone , and Peggy Sue Got Married . (Coppola, who had been notorious for delivering his own movies late and over budget, earned a reputation as a reliable director.
At the beginning of the year he finds, or imagines, a tiny shred of second-rate love with his call girl/deer, and later on finds, or imagines, an even tinier shred of a preposterous less-than-love with his child-girlfriend.
Condom manufacturers dump their second-rate products in the region, and scattershot inspection efforts fail to screen out the duds.
The episode has some nice moments--mostly involving an intern's desperate pursuit of a raise--but overall, it feels like a second-rate Murphy Brown.