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Meaning of second-drawer | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Second-rate; mediocre.

not-comparable

Examples

“[…] which contains a much larger proportion of the kind of second-drawer poems which do not quite come off in terms of total response but which poets are often reluctant to abandon because they are technically competent and a good deal of work has gone into them.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

second-generation second-hand second-line second-order second-party second-person singular imperative

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