'a mediocre man' is correct and usable in written English
You can use this phrase when referring to someone who is not particularly impressive or extraordinary. For example, "He was just a mediocre man, but he had an idea that would change the world."
These qualities, Wilson suggests, are the answer to the riddle of how such a mediocre man could eventually emerge triumphant.
It is better to date losers than cool guys, Violet says, because the love of a superior woman can lift a mediocre man toward better things.
It was to create a society in which the life chances of a mediocre woman are no different from the life chances of a mediocre man.
It is an ancient injustice, an ancient hypocrisy: a mediocre man is called a genius, a genius woman is called mediocre – if she is acknowledged at all.
Several hundred members of the Yale faculty protested about honouring someone they referred to as a "mediocre man" – Bush had graduated from Yale with a poor degree and could boast of few intellectual distinctions.
Julian Treslove is a mediocre man, consumed by the idea of encountering a tragic love; his existence seems pointless, empty.
It's a thoroughly damning critique almost guaranteed to irritate the notoriously thin-skinned president-elect, or as Nguyen calls him, a "shallow, mediocre man". .
"I sometimes wonder what that must feel like, mediocrity... To what extent is [the mediocre man] aware of his mediocrity?
I didn't come up with the phrase, "carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man," but I used to share a wall at Newsweek with a very confident white man.
With so much self-restraint, limiting your expressions, and avoiding speaking up, you have become the mediocre man you are today, a being tamed by the system.
"Lord, grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man," she said, quoting a refrain from writer Sarah Hagi that has become a mantra for many women of color.
