mediocre
Example Sentences
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Compared with my other direct report, he is terribly mediocre.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Jets' draft and John Harbaugh going to the Giants should mean they could rise to the heady heights of being mediocre.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Because the streamer’s standards are low, the screenplays Netflix produces are mediocre.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Mr. Statham, a not infrequently delightful actor whose main weakness is an inability to say no to mediocre projects, undertakes the usual heroic killing spree in “Mutiny,” a brief, reasonably compelling but shamelessly workmanlike feature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In it Mantell was characterized as a mediocre anatomist whose modest contributions to paleontology were limited by a "want of exact knowledge."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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