Synonyms for second-rate
sec·ond-rate

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1. mediocre, second-rateadjective

   moderate to inferior in quality

   "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

   Synonyms:
   fair, average, mediocre, middling

   Antonyms:
   superior

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1. List of paraphrases for "second-rate":

   second-class

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1. Paul Ryan:

   If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality, or on second-rate imitations, then we're not going anywhere.

2. Massachusetts Democrat Warren:

   Companies shouldn't be allowed to offer expensive vacations, prizes and other kickbacks to agents in exchange for selling costly, second-rate investment products to unsuspecting customers.

3. Shawn Baker:

   So both for ensuring kids' survival and then ensuring their future health and development, it's a huge intervention, i always characterize it that this is not some second-rate intervention we're trying to push on developed worlds, but this is really state of the art, the gold standard intervention that's relevant anywhere in the world.

4. Jean de La Bruyère:

   One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

5. A. A. Milne:

   The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.