单词 | second-rater |
释义 | > as lemmassecond-rater second-rater n. one who or something which is second-rate. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [noun] > second rate secondarya1616 second best1708 second-rate1799 second-rater1826 1826 T. Hood Backing Favourite 33 The second-raters seemed then a safer hit. 1916 E. Pound Lett. (1971) 87 Virgil is a second-rater, a Tennysonianized version of Homer. 1955 M. McCarthy Charmed Life (1956) i. 22 All the beached failures and second-raters of the twenties. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Apr. 481/2 His adamant opposition to American participation in Hitler's war damned him conclusively, for me, as a mean-minded second-rater or worse. < as lemmas |
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