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Examples

  • And I don't want our artists to play in secondrate gymnasia in mournful suburbs.

    Ontario and the French Connection 1985

  • And you at the BBC then compound the insult by grossly wasting money - and turning out a load of duff secondrate programmes.

    T for 324? 2009

  • If you want the Daily Mail, buy the real thing, rather than a secondrate copy of it.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Normally calm A's ace Dave Stewart called them "a secondrate club."

    Acting Frisky At Comiskey 2008

  • At one time the UAW and GM were the coconspirators in creating a secondrate U.S. car industry.

    Hardheads 2008

  • Boots shows envy, loses ground, and is regarded as possessing a secondrate mind.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • We will not accept secondrate, sometimes patronizing treatment for our problems.

    Healing the Female Heart Elizabeth Ross 1996

  • We will not accept secondrate, sometimes patronizing treatment for our problems.

    Healing the Female Heart Elizabeth Ross 1996

  • He almost pitied Florence that she couldn't be doing better than Bubby Dubois, much like a father would worry over a daughter's throwing herself away on some bum, some fucked-up guitarist who did gigs with a secondrate band.

    The End of the Pier Grimes, Martha 1994

  • Those achievements were proud ones; bridging the continent-welding peoples into a nation never secondrate in war or peace-developing a society whose strength, tolerance and enterprise became the envy of older, larger, more homogenous countries.

    A National Purpose 1963

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