mediocrity
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What really rankles Hedda, though, is that Lovborg and Thea have created something sublime while she has sought refuge with a scholastic mediocrity.
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He is a mediocrity while the jejune young man running riot in the palace is a miraculous, world-changing prodigy.
From Los Angeles Times
But by the time Curt Cignetti arrived, the Crimson Hawks had slipped into mediocrity.
The ceiling is too low to differentiate between excellence and mediocrity.
Through a feedback loop involving both the preferences of algorithms and our own spending biases, we are pulled toward a sea of mediocrity and might miss some real gems that cost more.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
