mediocre
Example Sentences
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I would much rather watch a perennial winning Dodger team on TV than go to three or four games a year and watch a perennial mediocre team.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
Whatever class of film I believed I’d be getting after watching other mediocre Tubi Originals in the past, I was so very wrong about.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
Jeremy Grantham has a new and provocative argument for why the U.S. stock market will produce mediocre returns this year.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026
Ed, one of the sons of the family -- played by Turner -- serves as a narrator of sorts and sums up the rest of his family as "lazy, mediocre, vapid egotists".
From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026
Then in the everyday, mediocre tone he used when he was proposing something really outrageous, he added, “Let’s go to the beach.”
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Vocabulary lists containing mediocre
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