most second rate

Like most second-rate copies, Gatsby captures much of the detail, but defaults on the grand design.

This village of Wandsworth, in truth, is of the size of most second-rate towns in distant counties, its main street, of compact and well-built houses, being half a mile in length, with several collateral ones a quarter  of a mile.

Morpeth, Labouchere, George Grey, and Francis Baring are better men than almost any in the Cabinet, which is certainly the most second-rate one this country ever saw.

"Then you heard a most second-rate performance," said she.