How to Use mediocrity in a Sentence

mediocrity

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  • We were disappointed by the mediocrity of the wine.
  • He thought that he was a brilliant artist himself and that all his fellow painters were just mediocrities.
  • For the first month of the season, the NFL was a mosh pit of mediocrity.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Add it all up and the Packers have been the picture of mediocrity.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Then again, the Big Ten West is a muddled mass of mediocrity.
    — oregonlive, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The Heat ended the first half of their season 5-5 in their last 10, the type of mediocrity that lands you in the play-in round.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • That's a recipe leading straight to the mediocrity treadmill.
    — Rahat Huq, Chron, 7 Dec. 2021
  • In the mediocrity that is all but a handful of NFC teams, the 49ers (4-5) still have a chance to earn one of the three wild-card spots.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But the sun is setting on the age of unchecked male mediocrity, and thank goodness.
    — Ross McCammon, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The medium, in those days, was still mostly in thrall to mediocrity.
    — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The Rangers also fell on hard times, as the past six seasons of mediocrity (or worse) have shown.
    — Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • On the one hand, this isn’t a team built for its current hover-around-.500-brand of mediocrity.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Put a dot in front of the five, and the meaning is unmistakable mediocrity.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
  • Instead, the French defender has been dragged down by the mediocrity around him.
    — Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Matt Eberflus is the new coach of the Chicago Bears, tasked with turning around a franchise mired in mediocrity for much of the past decade.
    — Bloomberg.com, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Francona meant a team that isn’t a contender and likely will be stuck in mediocrity for years.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 6 Apr. 2022
  • When the whole class gets an A, colleges are telling us that mediocrity equals excellence.
    — WSJ, 19 Dec. 2023
  • That, of course, led to a fallow stretch in which the Mets pieced together mediocrity on a budget for the final dozen years of the Wilpon era.
    — Jerry Beach, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Cincinnati was mired in mediocrity for so long, the team’s previous trip to the Super Bowl in 1989 seemed like fairy tale stuff.
    — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Some teams, like the Trojans, are struggling to escape theirs — and will now be looking to a fresh face to break the cycle of mediocrity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The Lions then hired Wood as team president, but have languished in a state of mediocrity for years.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2023
  • Not long ago, the Dons were mired in near-perpetual mediocrity.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2022
  • This North Asian axis of leadership mediocrity could not come at a worse time.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • But the Patriots have been a model of mediocrity all season.
    — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
  • What makes the series’ mediocrity all the more frustrating is that touch upon the germ of a meaningful idea.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2022
  • There’s little mediocrity on his new squad, from one through nine in both lineup and innings.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
  • All the trends suggested Michigan was on a path to long-term mediocrity, not long-term Big Ten supremacy.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • How will Marguerite fare among those of us who conspire to accept mediocrity?
    — Julius Taranto, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
  • But mediocrity — as measured by the win-loss record — has never been a friend to BYU football, not for 50-plus years, anyway.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2023
  • So believes Claudine Gay, a race hire, mediocrity, and phony who plays the victim.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024

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