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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These mediocrities say the same thing to everyone in the same way.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 27 May 2024
• 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
• But, and Black women know this story all too well, our greatness will never stand a chance against white mediocrity.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2024
• The winning formula lies in connecting one-of-a-kind minds and disrupting the status quo in a market flooded with mediocrity.
  — Kyle Russell, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024