Sentence examples for deliberately mediocre from inspiring English sources

Was everything else designed to be deliberately mediocre to make her shine all the more?

After her mediocre university career, in which she deliberately failed to gain access to a more prestigious institution in an act of self-sabotage aimed at her mother, the protagonist goes to work as personal assistant to the pop star Aimee.

But the question remains: why work so hard to make something deliberately bad, when the world is hardly running a shortage of mediocre movies?

At Trent Bridge he teetered between good and mediocre and during Brad Haddin's attempted charge to the line was deliberately singled out for treatment.

Most works in those mediums in the MOMA show are mediocre — including Picabia's, though his paintings of mechanical forms laced with wordplay and sexual innuendo can seem deliberately nugatory, razzing the very notion of quality.

Utterly mediocre".

Teachers mediocre?

"Deliberately slow".

Deliberately overlooked?

Mediocre left hand.

"Was it something mediocre?