Definition of Second-Rate

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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. Related Definitions: As, Champion, Cloth, Of, Or, Quality, Rank, Second, Second-Rate, Ship, Size, The, Value

Second-Rate Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Second-Rate Translations

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

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