third-rater

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."

Plagiary 2006

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."

The Little Professor: 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.

Saddam's Weapons Plants! 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.

World’s Great Men of Color 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.

World’s Great Men of Color 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.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

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.

World’s Great Men of Color 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.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

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.

World’s Great Men of Color 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.

The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967