1 Olivier's performance redeemed an otherwise second-rate play.

2 His novels are very second-rate.

3 This is a second-rate novel, because the readers' interest lags when the plot develops.

4 Not as a second-rate effort or a last-ditch effort.

5 A second-rate actor,[] she thought.

6 A second-rate Egyptologist unearths the diary of Eye, the grand vizier of the boy-king Tut.

7 Do old radio broadcasts, minor record labels and second-rate artists merit box sets?

8 We continue to be second-rate citizens-no, third-rate, since our sons come be-fore us.

9 What makes a second-rate actress like Jean so self-satisfied, so over-confident?

10 He seems so second-rate, so superficial, so shallow-and thus so dangerous.

11 Why are we content to settle for second-rate flavors, fake chocolates, no-fat cheeses, and chemical-tasting artificial sweeteners?

12 In the first skit, a second-rate star is organizing a Wild West charity benefit.

13 Contemptibly low in worth or account; second-rate.

14 He had been graduated from a second-rate medical school in Oklahoma and had practised in a small town ever since.

15 Most of the time re-enactments are performed by second-rate actors.

16 Many people begrudge paying so much money for a second-rate service.

17 She found it hard to live down her reputation as a second-rate actress.

18 Viewers will have to make do with tired re-runs and second-rate movies.

19 This time they are peddling water-filters, but the product is a second-rate consideration.

20 Rather it was the whole ethos of the monarchy which was felt to be dowdy and second-rate.

21 Less accomplished lecturers repeated the message at meetings of the second-rate institutions that infect academic life.

22 Taken at face value the words found sinister and can convey a false impression like some sort of second-rate horror movie.

23 After a spell in the army, he developed this into a business taking second-rate acts to provincial Soviet cities.

24 The danger is that while you put off the legwork, your money might be languishing in a second-rate account.

25 Scorned by the more expensive and mechanical toys, the shy young rabbit feels very second-rate and insignificant.

26 But the cartoonist is making a pun here, as bush league is also "Bush league", second-rate because it comes from people with minds like that of President George W. Bush.

27 Tom King was getting old; and old men, fighting before second-rate clubs, couldn't expect to run bills of any size with the tradesmen.

28 The third-rate article is the makeup of words, the second-rate article is the makeup of spirit, and the first-rate article is the makeup of life.

29 Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, "We will become a second-rate country.

30 It was confused with an exclusive focus on first-level care. For some proponents of development, it appeared cheap: poor care for poor people, a second-rate solution for developing countries.

1 Olivier's performance redeemed an otherwise second-rate play.

31 He wooed her with expensive gifts and sponsored her through Chica Med, a second-rate beauty pageant organizers concede was viewed as a cattle market by gangsters looking for new girls.

32 Beckham has been castigated for going to a second-rate league, yet that is a result of a salary cap designed to create a more even competition.

33 Market model: a first-class brand, the second-rate design, third-rate prices!

34 It's a center for finance and media,[] but London may be best understood as a world-class city in a second-rate country.

35 To keep Earth inhabitants away from the rest of the universe community, our planet was stuck way out in the boondocks at the rim of a second-rate galaxy.

36 A party which, a little higher level villains who, inevitably partisan achievements several potential talent in all aspects of IQ less than their second-rate writers, for the right-hand man.

37 I have heard of him; he is just a second-rate writer.

38 However, Cao Lei told reporters, these devices are imported, machine-made second-rate about the international level, is the most advanced international level by half.

39 Yeah, well, the shops in this little town are strictly second-rate. I'm waiting until we get back to the city.

40 Our technology is strong, but American public schools are second-rate in math and science.

41 In many countries and regions, women there continue to be regarded as second-rate citizens.

42 The president is satisfied with a second-rate American economy produced by his third-rate policies, " said Pawlenty. "I am not.

43 The president is satisfied with a second-rate American economy produced by his third-rate policies," said Pawlenty.

44 There's just a lot of ignorance and second-rate piping out there.

45 Bill Clinton's school-to-work initiative, a nod to the apprenticeship system, was derided as second-rate education.

46 The poems are wonderfully free of the drag and load of overbearing and perfectly useless detail with which so many second-rate biographies are stuffed to the gills.