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Meanings of second-rate in English
Russian
корабль 2 ранга Synonyms
Examples for "mediocre"
Examples for "mediocre"
1
The area around Malden had produced a great deal of mediocre wine.
2
The mediocre in poetry is merely fatuous; in sculpture, it is ugly.
3
If I do it myself, I know the result will be mediocre.
4
The world is passing on to mediocre men who remember great men.
5
Saturday's was two-star, mediocre, back to merely the joy of the result.
Usage of second-rate in English
1
As Evans said to Henry Kissinger, politics is only second-rate show business.
2
Great writers transcend their times, but second-rate writers are mired by theirs.
3
This faculty is the wisdom and makes the strength of second-rate men.
4
Time Warner has already criticized the second-rate, non-voting Fox shares on offer.
5
I had an offer to do a film, but it's really second-rate.
6
With the exception of Michael Gove, they are a fairly second-rate group.
7
Finally Rose secured a place in a second-rate establishment on Main Street.
8
There are greyhounds also, but inferior in speed to second-rate English dogs.
9
They were ceasing to command the services of any but second-rate men.
10
The characters are second-rate middle class, instead of being dukes and millionaires.
11
You think I'm going to give away my beauty for second-rate weaving?
12
Most of the singers, even the second-rate ones, began at fifteen-beganseriously.
13
There has been nothing second-rate about the bang-shoot in Austria and Switzerland.
14
Below is a series of frescos by a very second-rate artist, Poccetti.
15
As Wharton had said of Esther, she was but a second-rate amateur.
16
Imagine boots, and they very second-rate ones, at four pounds a pair.
Frequent collocations
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