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second-rater

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sec·ond-rate (sknd-rt)
adj.
Of inferior or mediocre quality or value.
second-rateness n.
second-rater n.
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Noun1.second-rater - a person of second-rate ability or value; "a team of aging second-raters"; "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him"
mediocrity
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"


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The greatest portrait painters have painted both, man and the intention of his soul; Rembrandt and El Greco; it's only the second-raters who've only painted man.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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