Second-rate

Second-rate fortune teller Harry Erskine gets involved in the case of a seeming cancer patient, Karen Tandy, who has a strange growth on her neck which moves.

Graham Masterton: Ghosts (and demons) of the past « Skulls in the Stars 2008

"Second-rate" is not bad, since it is only one step below "first-rate."

Credentialism Trap?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

How about establishing the Journal of Second-rate Junk?

Reviews Should be Published Luis von Ahn 2009

How about establishing the Journal of Second-rate Junk?

Reviews Should be Published Luis von Ahn 2009

Whoever submits a paper to a top conference or journal would have to agree that if two referees thought the submission was offensively bad not just below the bar, but so bad that it should never have been submitted in the first place, then it would be published instead in the Journal of Second-rate Junk.

Reviews Should be Published Luis von Ahn 2009

Second-rate signage marring third-rate stores scar the entire shopping arcade.

Tom Doctoroff: China Rising? Yes. Chinese Century? No. 2008

Second-rate research has resulted in the public's overreaction on a multitude of issues from the innocuous saccharine scare to the multitrillion-dollar political power play of global-warming hysteria.

Red Herrings Are Not a Species Needing Protection 2008

“Second-rate show” might seem a little harsh, but I truly felt that without the angle being done properly, the show would indeed be second-rate.

The Hardcore Diaries Mick Foley 2007

“Second-rate show” might seem a little harsh, but I truly felt that without the angle being done properly, the show would indeed be second-rate.

The Hardcore Diaries Mick Foley 2007

Second-rate comics who are dying on stage always go for the insipidly obvious and as with the comics, it never gets the audience back.

THE DEATH OF RIGHT-WING TALK RADIO RELEVANCE...R.I.P.: August, 1988 - December 4, 2006 2006