second-rater

Meyerhoff, one of the Schaubühne’s finest actors, injected fresh life into his character, a popular second-rater who probably suspects that he’s a hack.

Those show that some of the interned scientists even mocked Heisenberg for being a “second-rater”.

But still, you have not the reputation of Bauquel, second-rater that he is.

Just because I said that Jed The Red is a second-rater, don’t think for a moment that he fights like a schoolboy now.

And the cravat was only a second-rater, too, a black-silk affair.