1
as in decent
of average to below average quality
your grades are mediocre and barely acceptable
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mediocre
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There are still a few days of group stage games to go, but Bosnia-Herzegovina's four points and three goals today have given it decent odds.
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For Sacramento, that means another afternoon with temps briefly in the low to mid-90s before a decent Delta breeze kicks in.
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Rebecca Lowe joins Dan Patrick to discuss some of the top storylines around the World Cup, including Cristiano Ronaldo's poor play to start, the United States' potential and more.
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Will the gap between rural and urban America – and the gap between rich and poor America – decline or grow?
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For writing, editing, spreadsheets, email, and web browsing, performance proved entirely satisfactory.
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Iran hawks and an array of dissidents and mainstream voices within the Republican Party have cast doubt on whether the agreement secured satisfactory concessions from Iran.
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The production quality was terrible.
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But in May of 1943, a terrible fire burned his studio to the ground.
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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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The revolution won’t come cheap.
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Across six online experiments, the researchers showed participants a cheaper lower-quality item such as a sweater alongside a pricier higher-quality version.
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This high-impact look is a bit out of the ordinary for the star, save for that show-stopping blue eye makeup look—a literal something blue—to conclude The Drama press in April.
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My situation was, on some level, achingly ordinary.
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Against Australia in the last 16, Argentina were again labouring when faced with an inferior opponent, digging in and determined to spoil their World Cup dreams.
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Uruguay tied again, this time a 2-2 stalemate against another adversary that less than two weeks ago, pretty much every soccer pundit would have deemed inferior.
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“Mediocre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mediocre. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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