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单词 fifth-rate
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Definition of fifth-rate in English:

fifth-rate

adjective
  • Of the poorest possible quality.

    a fifth-rate TV journalist shooting a documentary
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The author described the cast as "tatty and fifth rate".
    • The most absurd thing of all is how much thought you devoted to this haphazard, fifth-rate hunk of junk.
    • They preferred the fifth-rate schools they knew to a vague promise of something better.
    • First-class dancers were on show last week in a fifth-rate setting.
    • "Essentially, it was a fifth-rate prison," he said.
    • Minor poets and fifth-rate novelists abound and cannot be publicly recalled.
    • A fifth-rate rock band swirled around in the background of the film.
    • They filled the airwaves with a bunch of fifth-rate so-called comics who were about as funny as a dose of bird flu.
    • The first-rate facilities contrast with the fifth-rate behaviour of spectators.
    • He made a reference to the unscrupulous greedy people in business who stole from future generations by providing shoddy, fifth-rate facilities and lining their own pockets very handsomely.
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