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." ❋ Unknown (2006)
And there can hardly be a comedy-club third-rater or MoveOn.org activist in the entire country who hasn't stated with sarcastic certainty that the whole WMD fuss was a way of lying the American people into war. ❋ GayandRight (2005)
Also, if he had been a third-rater, he could have had white women as the lesser Negro fighters had, or as the white fighters had Negro women, and no one would have minded. ❋ J. A. Rogers (1947)
Eager to see his mother again and on the chance that there would be no further prosecution of him, he agreed to lay down to Willard who was a third-rater, in spite of his great reluctance to give up the title. ❋ J. A. Rogers (1947)
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. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1967)
Quiroga is a third-rater and a stooge-in my opinion, a stooge for villains. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1956)
In the East Perry Blair had been little known and reckoned a third-rater. ❋ Larry Evans (N/A)
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. ❋ United States. Dept. Of Defense (N/A)
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. ❋ Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 (1929)
She's a third-rater, except in demagoguery (and in faking sincerity). ❋ Unknown (2010)
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". ❋ Unknown (2009)
SMQ's skills make Seinfeld look like the incompetent third-rater that he truly is. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Post dump this third-rater for someone better? ❋ Unknown (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)