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  1. mediocre, second-rateadjective

    moderate to inferior in quality

    "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

    Synonyms:
    fair, average, mediocre, middling

    Antonyms:
    superior

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  1. List of paraphrases for "second-rate":

    second-class

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#774average
#1667fair
#21488mediocre
#85796middling

How to use second-rate in a sentence?

  1. Judy Garland:

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

  2. David Ogilvy:

    Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

  3. Judy Garland:

    Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

  4. Matt Sheppard:

    Almost immediately they started to dismiss everything that we did, eric was dismissed, along with the other leadership at Cisco WebEx, as being kind of second rate.

  5. The Trump campaign:

    Unlike Megyn Kelly, who resorts to putting out statements via FOX News, Mr. Trump will continue to defend himself against the inordinate amount of unfair and inaccurate coverage he receives on her second-rate show each night.


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