Adjective
tenth-rate (comparative more tenth-rate, superlative most tenth-rate)
Of extremely poor quality, godawful.
The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song. Algernon Charles Swinburne
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. B. C. Forbes