second-rate Значение & определение

Примери за second-rate

• And 'good-enough' does not mean shoddy, second-rate or just getting by, but a teacher concerned for musical quality and the richness of musical encounters.

• Servants were thus liable to be treated as second-rate witnesses because they were both physically and socially compromised.

• Even in an ideal performance the work would probably not stand up to even efficient second-rate operas of the same period.

• Indeed, unless the goal of 'full employment' is replaced by 'full engagement', then such activity will remain construed as a second-rate activity compared with employment.

• So they rather co-operated with second-rate sculptors.

• Migration statistics are dismissed most summarily as 'second-rate because of poor recording', though later a short account is given of their contribution to short-term population estimation.

• Their one chance of a decent education is evaporating, and yet another generation of kids will be served nothing but a second-rate education.

• I am told that the granaries are full of second-rate malt.