How to Use mediocrity in a Sentence

mediocrity

noun
  • 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.
  • Life is too short to drink mediocrity.
    — Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2025
  • There was no place for the niceties of mediocrity, no false praise.
    — Bloomberg.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Beavers fans would be thrilled at the idea of mediocrity right about now.
    — oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Pretty bad is the stuff that mires a team in mediocrity.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • That leaves much of the league stuck in a cycle of mediocrity.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
  • And sameness is the fastest road to mediocrity.
    — Roberta Matuson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • His record of mediocrity speaks for itself.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The Magic have been stuck on the carousel of mediocrity for years.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • For most of this decade, the Red Sox have been mired in mediocrity.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 14 June 2026
  • To avoid the trap of mediocrity, challenge your team to think bigger.
    — Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Should parents aim for the best and risk mediocrity, or settle for the good?
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • His tenure has been riddled by mediocrity at best.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The medium, in those days, was still mostly in thrall to mediocrity.
    — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The rich keep winning, while the poor remain trapped in mediocrity.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
  • But the sun is setting on the age of unchecked male mediocrity, and thank goodness.
    — Ross McCammon, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • There’s a straight line from that to the team’s perennial mediocrity.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But that’s not a letdown, that’s a swan dive into the murky pool of mediocrity.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
  • But that’s not a letdown, that’s a swan dive into the murky pool of mediocrity.
    — Scott Ostler, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • That's a recipe leading straight to the mediocrity treadmill.
    — Rahat Huq, Chron, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Add it all up and the Packers have been the picture of mediocrity.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • There is a lot to be said about following a team from mediocrity to greatness.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
  • As a player, Posey saw a lot of mediocrity from the Padres teams.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2025
  • Or in the case of UMass, below mediocrity.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Decades of mostly mediocrity and worse followed.
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2026
  • All the while, Cuevas-Castro helped lift them out of mediocrity.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 18 July 2021
  • If not, no big deal, the Raiders are doomed to mediocrity forever.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The five years of tanking wasn’t supposed to produce two years of mediocrity.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 29 June 2021
  • The raunchy is mixed in with the tasteful, with long stretches of mediocrity in between.
    — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 12 Feb. 2018

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