Idiom: Fifth-Rate
Meanings
Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen.
Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
A fifth-rate warship.
Example Sentences
1
The hotel we stayed at was really fifth-rate; the rooms were tiny and dirty.
2
I can't believe they hired such a fifth-rate comedian for the comedy show.
3
The movie was so poorly made, it felt like a fifth-rate production.
4
The service at that restaurant was absolutely fifth-rate; the waiters were rude and inattentive.
5
The book I bought turned out to be a fifth-rate novel with a predictable plot.
