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.
• For the first month of the season, the NFL was a mosh pit of mediocrity.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2022
• The Magic have been stuck on the carousel of mediocrity for years.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• There was no place for the niceties of mediocrity, no false praise.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• Add it all up and the Packers have been the picture of mediocrity.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• How many more will die in the service of this mediocrity?
  — Anna Chan, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2021
• 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
• All the while, Cuevas-Castro helped lift them out of mediocrity.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 18 July 2021
• It's been called the enemy of progress, the root cause of mediocrity, the foil to your success.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 4 May 2021
• 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
• And what of Mario Mendoza, the player whose name has for decades been linked with mediocrity.
  — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• Since 2016, Bengals fans have had to live with mediocrity.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2020
• 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
• The five years of tanking wasn’t supposed to produce two years of mediocrity.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 29 June 2021
• The worst thing for any sports franchise is to get mired in the world of mediocrity, which is smack dab where the Blackhawks find themselves.
  — Jimmy Greenfield, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• That unwittingly paved the way for the poor, the tired, the huddling masses of mediocrity to make the playoffs.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2020
• Yes, the Broncos are close to the definitive mediocrity of a 2-2 record.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2019
• But the whole thing feels very predictable, which amounts to a general sense of mediocrity.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
• All that happened Thursday, though, was a step back into the morass of mediocrity.
  — Ethan Sears, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 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
• Our ports should be run for the benefit of all of us, not for a union advancing a worldview that can only bring mediocrity.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
• After acquiring the team, Harris decided the way out of mediocrity was to first get worse.
  — Hank Tucker, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024