Words similar to second-rate

Example sentences for: second-rate

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The Weekly Standard 's Christopher Caldwell bashes the New York Times Book Review . Its critics are mostly second-rate novelists who write turgid prose and "rave about demonstrably bad books."
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.
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.
‘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.
Condom manufacturers dump their second-rate products in the region, and scattershot inspection efforts fail to screen out the duds.