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- noun informal A
social hierarchy in which themediocre prevails .
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Examples
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Wake up America ... ignorance and mediocracy is not beneficial to our great country.
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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.
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Berlusconi's so-called mediocracy works in two ways.
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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 2008
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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.
Anime News Network 2009
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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.
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort: The Truth About Spain's Politics Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort 2010
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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.
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort: The Truth About Spain's Politics Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort 2010
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July 6th, 2009 10: 44 pm ET media + democracy = mediocracy.
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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.
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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.
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