second-rate

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Second-rate young men went abroad, their CVs condensed into the acronym FILTH: Failed in London, Try Hong Kong.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2016

Second-rate Chandler is not a commodity to conjure with, if you want to play literary one-upmanship.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2014

Second-rate Beethoven, with only fair-to-middling performance from the soloists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Second-rate European orchestras can usually be hired for concerts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Second-rate jewellers arrive with their boxes full of gold crosses and buckles, holy chaplets blessed at some favourite shrine, and silver rings.

From Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Jesse, William