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Glitter, who was always a fifth-rate pop star, constantly making faux-shocked "ooh" faces, as if a bulldog had suddenly clamped its jaws into his silver sparkly derriere.
Gwyneth's choice of song in Glee was a bit off. But that's all | Barbara Ellen 2011
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She seemed to know the way; Tina went ahead down the hall to Jack's room as I sat back down on the couch and resumed reading a fifth-rate romance called The Pleasures of His Flesh.
Sea of Tranquility Peter Barlow 2011
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US healthcare for those who HAVE insurance is fifth-rate.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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The suspicion is that its current champions, though very skilled, aren't half as good as they think they are, in that any fifth-rate Olympic gymnast who opted to switch discipline would probably obliterate the competition.
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Then, on further analysis, all the masks fall away and institutional anger against a journalist who dared to be true to himself came bursting to the surface, but in the two pages of horrifying evidence, my articles figure only as an argument of fifth-rate importance and are only mentioned in passing.
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MfA, you are just quoting the views of a fifth-rate yahwist derivative faith.
essential reading 2008
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How is it that a submarine of a fifth-rate power was able to penetrate a U.S.
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First there was this story in the New York Press in December 2003 declaring war on Christianity and calling Billy and Franklin Graham "fifth-rate shysters" who have "spent decades engaged on a relentless quest to turn the United States into the world's revenge on smart people" (see my response at the bottom of this page).
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In the back of a fifth-rate hotel on the tideflats, in the room that holds all the lost children.
A Dream Lay In Wait 2010
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Then, on further analysis, all the masks fall away and institutional anger against a journalist who dared to be true to himself came bursting to the surface, but in the two pages of horrifying evidence, my articles figure only as an argument of fifth-rate importance and are only mentioned in passing.
reesetee commented on the word fifth-rate
In the Royal Navy, a sailing frigate mounting 32 to 44 guns with the main battery on a single deck. Fifth-rate ships acted as fast scouts or independent cruisers and included a variety of gun arrangements; they had crews of 215 to 294 men. To be posted aboard a Fifth-rate ship was considered an attractive assignment. Fifth-raters were often assigned to interdict enemy shipping--meaning the prospect of prize money for the crew.
December 4, 2007