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  • noun Plural form of mediocrity.

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Examples

  • - Turning the 20th century into a artistic desert in which only crap and mediocrities is floating?

    Ex-RIAA boss Rosen: when fans took control 2009

  • Directing 8 movies (only 5 of which are good) and writing a spate of mediocrities is hardly "unparalleled."

    John Hughes To Get Special Oscar Tribute | /Film 2010

  • Monarchies have privy councils composed of titled mediocrities who advise their temporal lords.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • Even if there were a few bright spots, it was largely led by "mediocrities" like Katy Perry who provided a "soundtrack from hell."

    Danny Groner: Reviewing 2010's Pop Cultural Lessons Danny Groner 2010

  • Even if there were a few bright spots, it was largely led by "mediocrities" like Katy Perry who provided a "soundtrack from hell."

    Danny Groner: Reviewing 2010's Pop Cultural Lessons Danny Groner 2010

  • Often, the most important jobs get "mediocrities" like Greenspan and the current White House occupant.

    "Immoral Hazard" 2008

  • I can take a hint: who'd want to pan Nabokov and end up among the "mediocrities" on his enemies list, to which he might still be adding over on the other side?

    NYT > Home Page By DAVID GATES 2009

  • I can take a hint: who'd want to pan Nabokov and end up among the "mediocrities" on his enemies list, to which he might still be adding over on the other side?

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • Derivative teachers are mediocrities, and probably also boring if not interesting in all the wrong ways.

    Ad Fontes, a Mystical and Protestant View of Teaching « Unknowing 2010

  • Einstein captured this phenomenon succinctly with these prophetic words, as valid today as when he wrote them, some seventy years ago: Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

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