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third-rate

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third-rate (thûrdrt)
adj.
Of third quality or value, especially of less quality or value than second-rate.

third-rate
adj
not of high quality; mediocre or inferior
third-rater  n
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Adj.1.third-rate - of lesser quality than second-rate
inferior - of low or inferior quality

third-rate
adjective mediocre, bad, inferior, indifferent, poor, duff (Brit. informal), shoddy, poor-quality, low-grade, no great shakes (informal), chickenshit (U.S. slang), not much cop (informal), cheap-jack, half-pie (N.Z. informal), of a sort or of sorts, ropey or ropy (Brit. informal) a third-rate movie
Translations
third-rate [ˌθɜːdˈreɪt] ADJ (pej) → de tercera
third-rate [ˌθɜːdˈreɪt] adj(di qualità) scadente, di terz'ordine
third-rate [ˌθɜːdˈreɪt] adj(di qualità) scadente, di terz'ordine


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"Diable," said Monte Cristo compassionately, "it is a hard blow for a third-rate fortune.
There was something strangely incongruous in this Oriental figure framed in the commonplace door-way of a third-rate suburban dwelling-house.
In poor Maggie's highly-strung, hungry nature,--just come away from a third-rate schoolroom, with all its jarring sounds and petty round of tasks,--these apparently trivial causes had the effect of rousing and exalting her imagination in a way that was mysterious to herself.
 
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