Sample sentences for MEDIOCRITY

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ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding

I assure you we can't bear mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray

Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
The strength of this immutable desire saved her from the mediocrity and sadness of her fate.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
After eighteen years of mediocrity, I was pretty used to being average.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
You have an unerring instinct for mediocrity.'
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
They wouldn't know mediocrity if it punched them right in their fat faces.
Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
In this respect they had adapted themselves to the very condition of the plague, all the more potent for its mediocrity.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
Greatness and power are for him—for them, mediocrity and dependence.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
If you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what wretchedness!
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
How you managed to get that by the mediocrity police I will never know.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
Mediocrity, you see, has its compensations.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
In fact, I thought you were behaving like a tramp only to emphasize the mediocrity of the saps whose works you had to write about.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Had she actually believed that she could plant a seed of liberalism in the blank wall of mediocrity?
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
Domestic mediocrity drove her to lewd fancies, marriage tenderness to adulterous desires.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
She could not admit at once that she might have overestimated Wildeve, for to perceive his mediocrity now was to admit her own great folly heretofore.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
He vanished without a trace-into the great unknown of mediocrity.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
The crowd, by definition, gravitates toward average, which could tend toward middle of the road or toward mediocrity.
Tim Tebow -- Through My Eyes
They weren't afraid of him any more, for he did not seduce their wives or lure them out of sweet mediocrity.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden

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