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Definition
average or a bit below average in quality
- He became a second lieutenant in the Corps, an unspectacular rank, and was a fair student and a game but mediocre intramural athlete.Chapter 3.28 (38% in)
- Early on, I had discovered that I would rather take "Principles of Business Management" taught by an excellent teacher than suffer through "Shakespeare's Tragedies," a subject I normally would have enjoyed, with a mediocre one.Chapter 3.27 (1% in)
- VMI had found heroes in three mediocre players, and it was beautiful to watch.Chapter 3.30 (63% in)
- The work is mediocre, though quite workmanlike.Chapter 4.34 (67% in)
- Not disgraceful, mind you, just mediocre.Chapter 4.34 (67% in)
- McLean's bucking for rank," Braselton said, in the only amusing aside of his mediocre and emulative life.Chapter 4.39 (93% in)
There are no more uses of "mediocre" in The Lords of Discipline.
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