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average or a bit below average in quality

mediocre = about average

mediocre = about average

Despite Haymitch's order to appear mediocre, Peeta excels in hand-to-hand combat, and I sweep the edible plants test without blinking an eye.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

mediocre = about average

When I first ran three miles, mildly impressed with my mediocre twenty-five-minute time, a terrifying senior drill instructor greeted me at the finish line: "If you're not puking, you're lazy!"
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

mediocre = about average

It was supposed to be a game between the two best teams in the state, but Rogers seemed mediocre.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy

mediocre = average or a bit below average in quality

Scores only matter if they're very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

mediocre = about average

Trying to appear mediocre in front of the other tributes is the last bit of strategy I remember.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

mediocre = about average

I went to bed expecting to wake up the next morning, give my mediocre presentation, and call it a day.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

mediocre = about average

Professors and classmates seemed genuinely interested in what seemed to me a superficially boring story: I went to a mediocre public high school, my parents didn't go to college, and I grew up in Ohio.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

mediocre = about average

When I came home from boot camp with my fifteen-hundred-dollar earnings deposited in a mediocre regional bank, a senior enlisted marine drove me to Navy Federal—a respected credit union—and had me open an account.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

mediocre = about average

They were just predictably mediocre.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
Assuredly, Didymus of Alexandria is no mediocre philosopher.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Yet you confide much more in a boy who is incapable of Occlumency, whose magic is mediocre, and who has a direct connection into the Dark Lord's mind!
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
He knows himself to be mediocre, but he's great in the eyes of others.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
It was a mediocre boardinghouse for penniless students, presided over by a middle-aged couple with a calling for espionage.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
The entire populace knows thousands of songs, and there is hardly a mediocre voice among them.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
It makes you feel forever mediocre.
Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
Ironically, this same code had been a plot twist in a mediocre thriller Langdon had read years ago.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
We played one game without Cal and lost to a mediocre team from Staten Island that we should have beaten easily.
Walter Dean Myers -- Hoops
He believes in his heart that the marriage would make AMORY mediocre and ROSALIND miserable, but he feels a great sympathy for both of them.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise

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