mediocrity

Sample some new snacks: Summer barbecues are rife with potato-chip mediocrity.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

Was he merely a brilliant mediocrity, the essential staff man who made things tick for the great figures of history without ever being one himself?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

What a shame, considering a three-dimensional approach might be all “Obsession” needs to skate past mediocrity.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

But this section is where the album drifts into mediocrity, with a handful of meandering, mid-tempo love songs that don't really add much to the overall package.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

The strength of this immutable desire saved her from the mediocrity and sadness of her fate.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

But they were also politicians, self-serving and ambitious, often well-born mediocrities flying high above their general level of talent.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

The hothouse atmosphere of festivals can be misleading and turn mediocrities into events, certainly, but the noisy clamor of such hype is always outweighed by the joys of experiencing discoveries and revelations with others.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

Almost all of Hunt’s wistfully exasperated attempts to get Johnson to answer a question – any question – could have been replaced with the howl “I speak for all the mediocrities in the world”.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2019

It’s why picking the right candidate for a job is so difficult and why, on more occasions than we may care to admit, utter mediocrities sometimes end up in positions of enormous responsibility.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell