Third Rate

Word THIRD RATE
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Definitions and meanings of "Third Rate"

What do we mean by third rate?

Of third quality or value, especially of less quality or value than second-rate. adjective

Of the third rate or order. For the specific naval use, see rate, n., 8.

Hence Of a distinctly inferior rank, grade, or quality: as, a third-rate hotel; a third-rate actor.

A sailing warship that can be described with the adjective "third-rate" noun

Of lesser value or quality than second-rate adjective

Describing a British ship-of-the-line with 64 to 80 guns divided onto two gun decks. adjective

Of lesser quality than second-rate adjective

A British ship-of-the-line with 64 to 80 guns divided across two gun decks.

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The word "third-rate" in example sentences

The guy she’s going to couldn’t even be called third-rate. ❋ Susan Isaacs (2010)

Despite making some of the most iconic films of the past half century, Mr. Coppola hasn't had a box-office or critical hit in years, and "Twixt," a gothic thriller about a third-rate writer Val Kilmer who gets mixed up in a murder mystery in a small California town, is still seeking a distributor to get it into U.S. theaters after its Toronto festival debut. ❋ Michelle Kung (2011)

The accusations of dirty tricks and sabotaging of political enemies at the Nixon White House that culminates in a "third-rate burglary" at the Watergate Hotel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Computer-owning, would-be Renaissance hitmen can now sate their unseemly urges with the release of Assassin's Creed: Revelations on PC …The accurately named World Of Tanks puts you behind the controls of dozens of real and customisably absurd metal war machines …Puss In Boots, the Shrek spin-off, gives rise to a third-rate console game and Now! ❋ Unknown (2011)

Alas for Elley, third-rate "Mercy" isn't what the coaches are looking for and they all pass. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Rick went on to a third-rate medical school in the Caribbean when none of the U.S. schools would have him, and Carl turned into a sadistic U.S. Marshall. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

This third-rate student of Wittgenstein and Derrida is as hung up on the idea that it's difficult to make language communicate as a freshman at an elitist liberal arts college first made aware of it. ❋ Anis Shivani (2011)

Nobody cares about Jango Fett because he's just a third-rate Boba. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the height of the exchange, Renan accused Tasso of being a “shitty colonel” and Tasso, fighting back, accused Renan of being a “third-rate bandit.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hey, AMC doofuses -- you were a third-rate cable network that had lost even the cache of showing quality classic films without commercials when you lucked into these shows. ❋ Marshall Fine (2011)

But this meant it attracted mostly washed-up or third-rate overseas players. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Was I doomed to a life of misery, having cheap sex in third-rate motels and cars? ❋ Thomas Slater (2011)

And there is a third-rate coffee that is only two cents a pound more than the awful stuff we are using. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Which is essentially a way of saying that from here on out New York State is going to be just another third-rate state, offering poor services, mediocre schools, and a continually collapsing infrastructure. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They dismissed him as "a third-rate Western lawyer" and an "illiterate partisan" compared with heavyweights like New York's William Seward and Ohio's Salmon P. Chase. ❋ Arthur Herman (2010)

That pretty much sums up how most outdoorsmen view the suspension on their 4x4 -- until the truck starts bottoming out on rutted trails or groaning like some ghoul in a third-rate direct-to-video horror movie. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? ❋ Liz Kelly (2011)

CAPE CANAVERAL President Obama's plans for NASA could be "devastating" to the U.S. space program and "destines our nation to become one of second - or even third-rate stature," three legendary astronauts said in a letter Tuesday. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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