Airline delays used to mean wandering zombielike around an airport, bored, stressed-out, eating mediocre food (or not eating at all if the restaurants and bars had closed early) and thinking dark thoughts.
Success in the eleven plus exam places a student in a junior lyceum - a prestigious secondary school - while mediocre performance or not sitting the examination places a student in a less competitive secondary school.
Play can be boring or one-sided or mediocre, not to mention rain-interrupted.
A child whose IQ is mediocre or low does not equate with their fulfillment in life.
There is nothing unusual in a principal giving design opportunities to younger architects, but inexperience tends to produce naive or mediocre results, not the consistently high standard and extraordinary inventiveness shown by Behnisch's office.
When one team or the other, or both, has been mediocre or poor, you couldn't sell the rivalry for two cents.
The mediocre (or worse) Bullets became renowned not for their play but for sideshows and sensationalism.
A dull or mediocre player — admittedly not a type often seen in Pakistan teams — would have been discarded long ago.
They are the mediocre Mets, not the miracle Mets or the magical Mets.
Over all, Egypt's competitiveness is mediocre but not terrible.
