Of the poorest possible quality.
a fifth-rate TV journalist shooting a documentary
Example sentencesExamples
- The author described the cast as "tatty and fifth rate".
- The most absurd thing of all is how much thought you devoted to this haphazard, fifth-rate hunk of junk.
- They preferred the fifth-rate schools they knew to a vague promise of something better.
- First-class dancers were on show last week in a fifth-rate setting.
- "Essentially, it was a fifth-rate prison," he said.
- Minor poets and fifth-rate novelists abound and cannot be publicly recalled.
- A fifth-rate rock band swirled around in the background of the film.
- They filled the airwaves with a bunch of fifth-rate so-called comics who were about as funny as a dose of bird flu.
- The first-rate facilities contrast with the fifth-rate behaviour of spectators.
- He made a reference to the unscrupulous greedy people in business who stole from future generations by providing shoddy, fifth-rate facilities and lining their own pockets very handsomely.