mediocrity
Example Sentences
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It must break Percival’s heart to see his team descend back into persistent mediocrity.
From Los Angeles Times
The latter, afflicted by “the incurable disease of mediocrity,” has led a disappointing life yet still possesses a lust for it.
From Los Angeles Times
Sly, wry, adorable and deplorable, Guillaume Marbeck is priceless as the endlessly irritating and yet frustratingly charismatic Godard in one of the year’s brightest pictures, a rare standout in a sea of multiplex mediocrity.
And when he introduced the cameras, I was like, “No, no, no — you have to only do this side. Do you want greatness or mediocrity?”
From Los Angeles Times
It’s almost as if prime-time network television has attained maximum mediocrity and is willing to maintain a sluggish cruising level.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
