second-rate

  • 1Second rate — Portail du rock Principaux courants Scènes régionales Groupes et musiciens Par instrument Par nationalit …

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  • 2Second Rate — est un groupe de punk rock mélodique originaire de Besançon (France). Le groupe a été créé en 1998 sur les cendres de deux autres groupes, Gimp et Undully . Second Rate se sépare en octobre 2003, laissant à la place à Lost Cowboy Heroes, Hawaii… …

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  • 3Second-rate — Sec ond rate , a. Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second rate ship; second rate cloth; a second rate champion. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 4second-rate — adj [usually before noun] not of the very best standard or quality →↑first rate ▪ a second rate artist …

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  • 5second-rate — second rateness, n. secondrater, n. /sek euhnd rayt /, adj. 1. of lesser or minor quality, importance, or the like: a second rate poet. 2. inferior; mediocre: a second rate performance. [1660 70] Syn. 2. middling, inadequate, undistinguished,… …

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  • 6second-rate — [sek′ənd rāt′] adj. 1. second in quality, rank, etc.; second class 2. inferior; mediocre; inadequate second rateness n. second rater n …

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  • 7second-rate — adjective not of good quality: a second rate football team …

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  • 8second-rate — / second class [adj] inferior, cheap cheap and dirty*, common, commonplace, déclassé, hack*, low grade, low quality, mean, mediocre, poor, shoddy*, substandard, tacky*, tawdry; concepts 334,567,574 Ant. excellent, first class, first rate, great,… …

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  • 9second-rate — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ of mediocre or inferior quality. DERIVATIVES second rater noun …

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  • 10second-rate — index inferior (lower in quality), mediocre, poor (inferior in quality) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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