1
as in decent
of average to below average quality
your grades are mediocre and barely acceptable
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2
as in poor
of low quality
mediocre carvings in a pseudo-African style that are sold to tourists
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Recent Examples of mediocre
The rest of the film drags, the pacing falters, and the story inches toward a mediocre conclusion.
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Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 June 2026
The game was pretty mediocre aside from the very beginning and the very end, when Qatar’s injury-time equalizer was met with a shocked wave of sound from the large lawn, but again, no one really seemed to mind.
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Ben Church,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
Usually bad Red Sox teams tend to have good to mediocre lineups and poor pitching and defense.
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Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
14 June 2026
Jennifer Noyes Most of the real-life restaurants that appear in films and television series about Paris are so resolutely mediocre.
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Air Mail,
13 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for mediocre
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 June 2026
The game was pretty mediocre aside from the very beginning and the very end, when Qatar’s injury-time equalizer was met with a shocked wave of sound from the large lawn, but again, no one really seemed to mind.
—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
Usually bad Red Sox teams tend to have good to mediocre lineups and poor pitching and defense.
—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
14 June 2026
Jennifer Noyes Most of the real-life restaurants that appear in films and television series about Paris are so resolutely mediocre.
—
Air Mail,
13 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for mediocre
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mediocre
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Find a quiet gate, buy a decent coffee, use your noise-canceling headphones.
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Rear-seat passengers get decent legroom and the cargo area is practical enough for road trips, shopping runs or airport duty.
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Because of that, these hands suffer from high production costs, poor durability against impacts, short operational lifespans, and there are no existing solutions that engineers can readily draw upon, Wang added.
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The extreme heat can also affect people who are physically ill, especially those with heart disease or high blood pressure, or who take certain medications, such as for depression, insomnia, or poor circulation.
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Kelley said the company believed the existing easement was satisfactory and wasn’t told otherwise until after investing years of work on he project.
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For writing, editing, spreadsheets, email, and web browsing, performance proved entirely satisfactory.
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Thank you to everyone who read or contributed to this column over the years, who reached out to me with story ideas or tips, or complimented my terrible artwork.
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Visitors will see his Rough Riders uniform; the 1884 diary grieving his terrible loss; and the eyeglasses case, speech and shirt from the 1912 assassination attempt against him.
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Chisholm said that after Schlittler spun yet another gem, holding the middling Reds to four hits, a hit-by-pitch and zero walks over six scoreless innings in a 5-0 win for the Yankees.
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Conwell is middling at best as a distributor and not notably efficient scoring inside the arc.
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Microchips are relatively cheap and are required for every pet in Los Angeles County over 4 months old.
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Prove Your Claims With Evidence In a market flooded with AI capabilities, claims are cheap, and every launch sounds the same.
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Lander also backs an ultra-wealth tax on individuals worth over $1 billion, as well as the Equal Tax Act, which matches tax rates for capital gains and ordinary income over $1 million.
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In 2022 long-term acute care hospitals accounted for 56 percent of screening detections and ordinary acute care hospitals for 25; by 2024 the proportions had inverted, to 36 and 51.
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More broadly, the idea that White players are inherently inferior no longer matches reality.
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This is because Austria would have remained on three points but with an inferior goal difference to Iran in the third-place standings (minus one to zero).
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“Mediocre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mediocre. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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