third-rate
third-rate
Definition
third·-rate (-rāt′)
adjective
- third in quality or other rating; third-class
- inferior; very poor
third′·-rat′er noun
third-rate
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- power: It isn't that I doubt the ability of America's fighting forces to take out a third-rate power like Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
- actor: One day, someone will make a fabulous movie about third-rate actors in Hollywood.
- novel: I have written a goodly number of candidly speaking third-rate novels, which have been fairly remunerative here, and fairly read in America.
- copy: The group is a third-rate copy of Scala, performing modern repertoire in a choral setting.
- version: It exposes ' American Idiot ' as nothing more than the third-rate version of ' Suspect Device ' that it is.
- man: The third-rate great man is superior to other men, like Whistler.
third-rate Quotes
If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?
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