Etymologies
- Blend of mediocre and -cracy (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Wake up America ... ignorance and mediocracy is not beneficial to our great country.”
“Regardless of Starr's motives, his reinterpretation of Mr. Jennings as a "sore winner" spread swiftly through the mediocracy, which is getting more mediocre every day.”
“Berlusconi's so-called mediocracy works in two ways.”
“This kind of mediocracy drives me mad because it affects all of us.”
mary oliver | redux (letters to the editor) « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
“A dead-pan English dub, a middling plot, and animation quality that occasionally dips as low as the original Slayers TV series all shout "mediocracy", killing a potentially decent series before it even has a chance to shine.”
“This bunch of self-serving non-entities who aspire to mediocracy [& fall far short of the bar] we somehow allowed to come to power are placing their own [failed] cronies in positions of responsibility & influence & this is the sort of feeble minded policy which results.”
“Left-wing premier José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his all-time worst team of companions have accelerated the shift towards a lost decade, where Spain and Spaniards will remain with double-figure unemployment, economic stagnation and a perennial mediocracy.”
The Huffington Post: Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort: The Truth About Spain's Politics
“July 6th, 2009 10: 44 pm ET media + democracy = mediocracy.”
“Open your eyes, and think for a second that most of the world has suffered under the mediocracy that we have endured for the past eight years. —”
Feinstein’s O.K. With Panetta at C.I.A. - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“If you believe socialism or communism is a better way of life or that America should bow to the lowest common demonimater of mediocracy so no country is more exceptional than another maybe you should become an ex-patriot.”
Sarah Palin on 'Oprah': Five best-case (or maybe worst-case?) scenarios | EW.com
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mediocracy’.
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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jaydrox's list
Mah list!
mediocracy, captivatingly, devastatingly, dazedly, heavenly, flawless, copious, conviction, synoptic, amalgamation, prefatory, precursory and 150 more...
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Forms of Government
A handful of -ocracies.
adhocracy, androcracy, aristocracy, autocracy, cleptocracy, corpocracy, democracy, ethnocracy, gerontocracy, gynecocracy, gyneocracy, gynocracy and 31 more...
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Crazy "-Cracy"
Words that end in the suffix "-cracy", which therefore means that the word represents a form of government.
kakistocracy, meritocracy, gynecocracy, hagiocracy, corporatocracy, timocracy, gerontocracy, ethnocracy, sociocracy, kritocracy, thalassocracy, ochlocracy and 64 more...
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