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Examples
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And I don't want our artists to play in secondrate gymnasia in mournful suburbs.
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And you at the BBC then compound the insult by grossly wasting money - and turning out a load of duff secondrate programmes.
T for 324? 2009
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If you want the Daily Mail, buy the real thing, rather than a secondrate copy of it.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Normally calm A's ace Dave Stewart called them "a secondrate club."
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At one time the UAW and GM were the coconspirators in creating a secondrate U.S. car industry.
Hardheads 2008
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Boots shows envy, loses ground, and is regarded as possessing a secondrate mind.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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We will not accept secondrate, sometimes patronizing treatment for our problems.
Healing the Female Heart Elizabeth Ross 1996
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We will not accept secondrate, sometimes patronizing treatment for our problems.
Healing the Female Heart Elizabeth Ross 1996
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He almost pitied Florence that she couldn't be doing better than Bubby Dubois, much like a father would worry over a daughter's throwing herself away on some bum, some fucked-up guitarist who did gigs with a secondrate band.
The End of the Pier Grimes, Martha 1994
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Those achievements were proud ones; bridging the continent-welding peoples into a nation never secondrate in war or peace-developing a society whose strength, tolerance and enterprise became the envy of older, larger, more homogenous countries.
A National Purpose 1963
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