Mediocrity Definition

Mediocrity Sentence Examples

• While some reality show cast members have gone on to achieve fame, others have fallen into mediocrity.

• Although careful and industrious, Addington had no brilliant qualities, and his mediocrity afforded opportunity for attack by his enemies.

• Viewed in this light Petrarch anticipated the Italian Renaissance in its weakness - that philosophical superficiality, that tendency to ornate rhetoric, that preoccupation with stylistic trifles, that want of profound conviction and stern sincerity, which stamp its minor literary products with the note of mediocrity.

• The Xenien succeeded as a retaliation on the critics, but the masterpieces which followed them proved in the long run much more effective weapons against the prevailing mediocrity.

• Whitefield's printed works convey a totally inadequate idea of his oratorical powers, and are all in fact below mediocrity.