How to use mediocre in a sentence

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• The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point.From the entry flow
• I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.From the entry class
• Despite a mediocre grade in English, Pat just managed to sneak in to the university.From the entry sneak in
• She is an all-star on an otherwise mediocre team.From the entry all-star
• Most people thought the food at the luncheon was mediocre.From the entry luncheon
• His already mediocre record is all the less impressive once you discover that he made half of it up.From the entry all the less
• Most of the unfilmed scripts were decidedly mediocre.From the entry unfilmed
• However, the duo has only delivered mediocre performances for Kerala Blasters.2018 December 11, Ali Shibil Roshan, “Analysis: Examining the permutations and combinations thrown up by India’s AFC Asian Cup squad”, in…. From the entry superimmense
• San Jose then had the best commercial art department in the state; Stanford's was mediocre in comparison.2018 August 7, Francine Falk-Allen, Not a Poster Child: Living Well with a Disability—A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry in comparison
• Anand, I will unspin the incompetent spin by the verifiable mediocre and dishonest council.2015, Abiodun Olayinka Bamgbelu, Mediocre Great England, page 572. From the entry unspin
• His cooking is good to mediocre and most of the time, simple and filling.2012, J. M. Waters, Grey Falcon, page 14. From the entry cooking
• Play switches from an overhead run and gun to a platform jumping shooter in this mediocre game.2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002. From the entry run-and-gun
• And I discovered that the great majority were mediocre or worse—banal, treacly, shallow, half-assed, depressingly Barneyesque.2001, Istvan Banyai, − = + [Minus Equals Plus], New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, page 3. From the entry Barneyesque
• Most of Dancer in the Dark ranges from mediocre (music and choreography) to laughably bad.2000 October 6, Liam Lacey, “Bad, but in a complicated way”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ont.: The Globe and Mail Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry high concept
• “Then of course there′s Maccas food, which is uniformly mediocre no matter where you go.”1998, James Roy, Full Moon Racing, page 25. From the entry Maccas
• And the biggest thing was I didn’t want to die being some mediocre YBA artist from the 90s.2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, quoting Tracey Emin, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some…. From the entry YBA
• You’d be considered a leper if you did not participate in the average, mediocre people’s wailing and complaining.2019, Leander Moss, Death at a Discount: A Funny, Magical & Inspiring Tale of the After-life, Babelcube Incorporated, page 25. From the entry a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved
• It's that he has a combination of many often mediocre abilities that combine to create a formidable talent stack.2017, Barbara Oakley, Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential, →ISBN. From the entry talent stack
• The answer can best be summed up with this statement: a good right-foot-braker will drive better than a mediocre left-foot-braker.2017, Ross Bentley, The Lost Art of High Performance Driving, page 58. From the entry braker
• His poker-faced timing makes the most of even mediocre one-liners, and beneath sequoian impassivity lurks an engagingly warm persona.2007 February 5, Alessandra Stanley, “The Sitcom Question: Tie the Knot or Not?”, in New York Times. From the entry sequoian
• Blaine is mediocre at best, and duplicitous at worst.2001 July 11, Lisa Lundgren, “What is overrated?”, in alt.magic.secrets (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Apr 2026. From the entry get-ready
• Mehring was a well-read and percipient critic and quite aware of the difference between great and mediocre art.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry percipient
• He’s a warlock—albeit a mediocre one.2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its…. From the entry lifemate
• And in the midst of my indecision, I suddenly saw the long view of my inconsequential life: Mouseketeer, farm kid, failed husband, mediocre teacher.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.23. From the entry long view
• You may be an excellent player but a mediocre deckbuilder, while one of your friends is an excellent deckbuilder but a substandard player.2002 July/August, Mary Van Tyne, “Teamwork pays off in Magic”, in Scrye, number 52, page 44, column 1. From the entry deckbuilder
• It's very easy to mishire people for jobs at which, realistically, their innate shortcomings will prevent them from ever performing beyond a mediocre level.1998, Don Blohowiak ·, Your People Are Your Product, page 58. From the entry mishire
• "The difference between playing to win and playing not to lose is the difference between the successful executive and the security-hunting, mediocre man.1988, David Mahoney (chairman, Norton Simon Inc.), quoted in The Executive's Book of Quotations (Oxford, 1994), p. 298. From the entry play to win
• I wrote Miss Crane off as mediocre because although she chatted quite pleasantly and intelligently over coffee she was mostly mumpchance at the dinner table.1966, Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown, page 69. From the entry mumchance
• Such philistinism pleases the misoneism of the mediocre, whence the enthusiasm over platitudes and the reign of the philistine in newspaper art, literature and science.1923 May, “Pornolagny and Realism”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous…. From the entry misoneism
• The boysober movement, for instance, is gaining traction among women who are done contorting themselves into palatable versions of femininity just to be tolerated by mediocre men.2025 March 9, Daniel Dashawn, “Chaos Celibacy: The Great Romantic Boycott”, in Daniel Dashawn Couples Therapy, archived from the original…. From the entry boysober
• Touch of Evil is not a good movie, but it is a good bad movie, which is more fun than the mediocre or even the adequate.2014, Sarah Nilsen, Projecting America, 1958, McFarland. From the entry good-bad
• In industrial civilization, environmental variety has been replaced by what has been called "'a flatscape", lacking intentional depth and providing possibilities only for commonplace and mediocre experiences.1992, Lothar Fietz, Paul Hoffmann, Hans-Werner Ludwig, Regionalität. From the entry flatscape
• Not for the ophiophobic, this made-for-cable original features rattlesnakes running amok in a small town, mediocre acting (on the humans' part, that is), dull dialogue, and laughable scenes in snake-o-vision.2000, Mick Martin, Marsha Porter, Video Movie Guide 2001, Ballantine Bokos, →ISBN, page 895. From the entry ophiophobic

Meaning of mediocre

1. adjective Not excellent or outstanding, usually disappointingly so.
2. noun A person of minor significance, accomplishment or acclaim; a common and undistinguished person.
3. noun A member of a socioeconomic class between the upper ranks of society and the agricultural workers.

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Questions about mediocre in a sentence

How do you use mediocre in a sentence?

Mediocre is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I'm pretty good at tennis but only mediocre at racquetball.”

What is a short sentence with mediocre?

“The mediocre teacher tells.”

What does mediocre mean?

Mediocre means not excellent or outstanding, usually disappointingly so.