Adjective : a third-rate performance. From Dictionary.com.
In the East Perry Blair had been little known and reckoned a third-rater. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
It is common to see the boss's nephew or his son get a good spot in the office and then rise like a rocket, even though he is a third-rater. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
I understand you perfectly; you're a third-rater, Van, and all your life you've been afraid that someone would see through you, and send you back to the foot of the class. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
It's much easier to dimiss a pleasant third-rater like Rhoda Broughton, who in one novel absconds with a passage from The Mill on the Floss without so much as a "please, George.". From Wordnik.com. [Plagiary] Reference
She's a third-rater, except in demagoguery (and in faking sincerity). From Wordnik.com. ["BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader] Reference
SMQ's skills make Seinfeld look like the incompetent third-rater that he truly is. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Morning Quarterback] Reference
If you've noticed the paintings they buy to hang in their parlors - the wooden waves put on canvas by the local Rembrandts - I may be a third-rater, but I couldn't bring myself to do stuff like that. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Camel]
Short of calling Zardari a bloody civilian, Musharraf called a number Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Mir Jamilur Rahman Mr Pervez Musharraf, in a recent outburst, called President Zardari "a criminal, a fraud and a third-rater". From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to General in his labyrinth] Reference
It beggars belief that this individual, who, in a Cabinet full of second-raters with enormously inflated views of their own self-worth, rates as low on the scale of competence to be called a third-rater, and whose perma-tan provokes more than just the odd snigger as he passes by, is incapable of taking out a pen and transferring the details of all the donations made to him for his run at the Deputy leadership of the Labour Party. From Wordnik.com. [Does Hain Do Joined-UpWriting?] Reference
Why, in the land of ready money I'm only a third-rater, but I've got the four hundred million, all right. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Slim Princess] Reference
He's a third-rater, "Musharraf was quoted as saying by Pakistani daily. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
WHITE MOUSE a third-rater!. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 26] Reference
Maybe Columbus was a third-rater!. From Wordnik.com. [My Shipmate—Columbus] Reference
To some, he's utterly derivative, a third-rater. From Wordnik.com. [Merry Swankster] Reference
He's a third-rater '. ". From Wordnik.com. [Top Headlines] Reference
Like criminal, fraud and third-rater. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Pakistan's president hands over nuclear powers] Reference
And one more thing you right wing "pigs fly" types....mccain wanted lieberman ... that was his go to guy....so he takes this third-rater from Alaska. From Wordnik.com. [In our Palinsanity, we need a Palindrome: Harass Sarah.] Reference
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