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• n  a person of second-rate ability or value
  a team of aging second-raters

• There has long been a tendency to repeat, without checking it against the pictures, Gauguin's irritable verdict that Pissarro was a good second-rater, "always wanting to be on .
• The offer was made in Graziano's dressing room two weeks before his scheduled bout with second-rater Ruben ("Cowboy") Shank.
• His clique of shady Chinese business cronies and provincial politicians was regarded as proof that Estrada was a second-rater, unfit to rule and certainly not one .

• mediocrity

Quotes

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• Ricardo La Volpe in Guardian Unlimited
  Hugo Sanchez will always be a second-rater,La Volpe said, a comment that led to the two trading barbs in public regularly over the years.