All 4 Uses
mediocre
in
Hillbilly Elegy
(Edited)
- I went to bed expecting to wake up the next morning, give my mediocre presentation, and call it a day.
p. 65.5mediocre = 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.
p. 174.4
- 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!"
p. 177.1 *
- 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.
p. 204.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(mediocre) average or a bit below average in quality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)