Words similar to second-rate

Example sentences for: second-rate

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Dylan in the 1960s was writing at such a pitch of inspiration that even his second-rate material is pretty fine.
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.
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?
‘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.
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.