C-grade

English Etymology From the "C" grade given to students who are not failing, but also not doing particularly well. Adjective -,more en informal Not very good; mediocre, mid. en A-grade B-grade D-grade F-grade en second-rate third-rate Thesaurus:mediocre en Justin Peters Dispatches From Book Leave, Part 2 Slate https://web.archive.org/web/20190414170300/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/06/aaron-swartz-book-slates-justin-peters-gives-updates-from-his-book-leave.html 12 June 2014 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. en Dennis Harvey Film Review: 'All the Devil's Men' Variety https://web.archive.org/web/20230720170107/https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/all-the-devils-men-review-1203083837/ Los Angeles, C.A. w:Penske Media Corporation 7 December 2018 0042-2738 810134503 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). en w:Linette Lopez It's official: Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner are smarter than Mark Zuckerberg w:Business Insider https://web.archive.org/web/20230514010348/https://www.businessinsider.com/kim-kardashian-kylie-jenner-smarter-than-mark-zuckerberg-instagram-changes-2022-7 New York, N.Y. w:Insider Inc. 29 July 2022 1076392313 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. en Richard Whittaker The Best Man w:The Austin Chronicle https://web.archive.org/web/20230426195508/https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2023-04-28/the-best-man/ Austin, T.X. The Austin Chronicle Corporation 28 April 2023 1074-0740 32732454 But this is a return to the kind of C-grade cheapo actioneers that damaged his reputation in the first place. Related terms en letter grade See also en C-level