second-rate

When Smith phoned the American Embassy in Rome to ask for assistance, he says the couple was treated like second-rate citizens.

Second-rate man Boswell may have been, as he himself so oft admits, yet as a biographer he stands first in the front rank.

Otherwise, to what use could these second-rate horses be put?

Let us see what these second-rate schemers make of it all, she said.

A pretty good culinary apple of second-rate quality; in use during October; but scarcely worth cultivation.

Beatrix playing comedy was judged to be a second-rate actress.