Type of ship of the line.
Moderate to inferior in quality.
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.
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