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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a mediocre life" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a life that is average or unremarkable, lacking in excitement or achievement.
Example: "After years of working a dull job, she realized she was living a mediocre life and decided to make a change."
Alternatives: "an ordinary life" or "a lackluster life."
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He had led a mediocre life exceptional only in the magnitude of its unexceptionality".
The grim words of a Spanish friend — You're condemning him to a mediocre life — will echo again.
Peter grew upset: "O.K., well, then go find someone who is going to give you a mediocre life!" They have reached an impasse.
When a painful attempt to resettle in his homeland is unsuccessful, Dr. Suri is forced to a philosophical — if not emotional — acceptance of a separation mandated by his desire for more than what he calls a mediocre life.
Don't settle for a mediocre life.
A perfect recipe for a mediocre life.
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Unfortunately, that means most likely you're going to have a relatively mediocre life".
Thirty-some years into a disappointingly mediocre life, Landis at least seems to understand cause and effect better than Bernice.
His term "constructed situations" comes from the French theorist Guy Debord's 1957 manifesto "Report on the Construction of Situations," which called for the artist to generate moments that would jolt the spectator out of passivity, rendering him the co-creator of a less mediocre life.
Because of my lack of decision, lack of choice, I was living a very mediocre life, trying as best as I could to accommodate both, yet not fully invested in either.
In L'Escargot entêté (1977; The Obstinate Snail), a petty bureaucrat exposes his mediocre life and values, symbolizing the incompleteness of the Algerian revolution.
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