adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
first-rate/second-rate/third-rate
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a third-rate business school
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His only modest joy in life comes from playing trombone with a third-rate jazz band in a seedy neighborhood pub.
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If I'd ever done anything - made anything of myself more than a third-rate free-lance - it might've been different.
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Save for the metal detector and federal guards in the lobby, the place could easily pass for a third-rate collection agency.
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They were being overcharged for third-rate beer, much of it brewed from cheap and inferior ingredients.
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Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner.