1931,Music and Dance, volume21, Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Musical News Pub. Co.,→OCLC, page27, column 2:
Some years ago there were hundreds of musicians of ability, but of less stellar renown, who toured the country, giving performances at less thanstellar fees.
1970,Hardware Age, volume205, New York, N.Y.: David Williams Co.,→OCLC, page 8, column 1:
Yet the economic seers are at it again, seemingly unabashed by their somewhat less thanstellar performances in 1969.
2012, Linda A. Jenkins, “What is Social Lending?”, inCreative Financing: How to Get a Small Business Loan without a Banker, Gold Alliance Group,→ISBN,page 1:
Where a bank may automatically reject any borrower based on a bad credit score, this is not true for all social lending networks. You can still have a less thanstellar score and obtain funding as long as you can convince a peer tha your project is worthy or your business model is strong.