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third-rate
[ thurd-reyt ]
adjective
- of the third rate, quality, or class.
- distinctly inferior:
a third-rate performance.
third-rate
adjective
- not of high quality; mediocre or inferior
Derived Forms
- ˈthird-ˈrater, noun
Other Words From
- third-rater noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of third-rate1
Example Sentences
In the past, it has actually helped the cause of freedom that politics is mostly a pursuit for third-rate talents.
First-rate and third-rate works of the same size brought similar prices.
The north side is occupied by a row of seventeenth-century houses turned into shops and third-rate cafs.
Through Brook Street to the upper Bohemian quarter, where third-rate music-hall artists appear.
With either Mr. Shepard or Mr. Low elected, Tammany would dwindle—as one now beholds it—to be a third-rate influence.
There are too many cheap lawyers and third-rate politicians there.
At last they came to a third-rate house, when a rough, common-looking woman opened the door and shutter.
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