third-rate
adjective
: extremely low in quality or value : worse than second-rate
third-rate hotels
a third-rate novelist
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This all works because there are limits to how convincingly architects can dress up an aging, third-rate office block for continued use as a workplace.
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Curbed, 24 Jan. 2024
This may sound like an insult, and in fact many of the finest Mason paintings are very close to the third-rate ones.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
Fifty years later, Hamas is a third-rate militia compared with Syrian and Egyptian forces, let alone Israel’s sophisticated Army and arsenal.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
As a business owner, I'm infuriated by your third-rate vice signalling that complicates efforts to bring business and talent here.
—Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2023
Putin’s rise followed years of Russian economic collapse and the bloody Chechen war, a time in which Russia descended to the level of a third-rate power.
—Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2023
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Curbed, 24 Jan. 2024
This may sound like an insult, and in fact many of the finest Mason paintings are very close to the third-rate ones.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
Fifty years later, Hamas is a third-rate militia compared with Syrian and Egyptian forces, let alone Israel’s sophisticated Army and arsenal.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
As a business owner, I'm infuriated by your third-rate vice signalling that complicates efforts to bring business and talent here.
—Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2023
Putin’s rise followed years of Russian economic collapse and the bloody Chechen war, a time in which Russia descended to the level of a third-rate power.
—Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2023
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“Third-rate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/third-rate. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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