Definition of Second-Rate

Second-rate

Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.

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Second-Rate Quotations

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
Paul McCartney

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Sam Houston

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
Leo Rosten

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Cyril Connolly

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Doris Lessing

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
Jean de la Bruyere

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
Natalia Ginzburg

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
G. H. Hardy

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
Wayne Kramer

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
Richard Strauss

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Second-Rate Translations

second-rate in German is zweitklassig
second-rate in Swedish is sekunda

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