0 the quality of being not very good:
He rendered the utmost service in destroying the exaggerated reputations of the mediocrities of his time, but his judgment was sometimes at fault.
Now we are ruled over by mediocrities.
In my opinion, they are corrupted by their own mediocrity.
Everyone knows that mediocrity is far more costly, in the long term, than quality.
In other words, you have rejected responsibility in favour of solidarity, and you have dismissed solidarity in favour of greed, mediocrity and accounting.
Surely it is not the standardisation of mediocrity but the inequality of individuality which makes for progress.
We are making certain of an age of mediocrity.
The fear of a controlled and a uniform mediocrity must be removed.