Meaning of C-grade | Babel Free

Definitions

Not very good; mediocre, mid.

informal, not-comparable, usually

Examples

“Near-synonyms: second-rate, third-rate; see also Thesaurus:mediocre”

“[…] Easter is April 20, and I have set an informal goal of having 50,000 words on paper by that date—not necessarily good words, mind you, just C-grade stuff that I can work with and refine during the revision process.”

“Yet there's still a tang of C-grade cliché to a movie too obviously trying to pull off global intrigue on a low budget, with a surfeit of alpha-male posturing, hamfisted dialogue, and incessant gunfire ultimately failing to provide sufficient credibility (let alone production values).”

“The basic problem with Yahoo was that it never figured out what kind of company it was after it was beaten out by Google. It never figured out how to be more than a C-grade version of Google.”

“But this is a return to the kind of C-grade cheapo actioneers that damaged his reputation in the first place.”

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