mediocrat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A politician or bureaucrat of mediocre ability.
noun
An advocate of mediocracy; one who prefers to avoid controversy, change and risk.
noun
An ordinary person with no special abilities; a mediocrity.
noun
A politician or leader from a middle-class background.
noun
A plant species that thrives in moderate conditions.
Example Sentences
- "The Oligarchs — remnants from Brazil's colonial past — are sub-divided into the well-intentioned but provincial "mediocrats" and the more highly powered "kleptocrats" — thieves of the first order."
- "In India, men and women of talent, ability, honesty and integrity keep their distance from the politics of today. It is a game of mediocrats."
- "It was argued by Jayashree (1999) and by Sadri and Jayashree (2002) that the greatest hindrance to organisational progress is the mediocrat - the bureaucrat who tries to guard his turf since he is inherently insecure."
- "There is in Canadian political, business, and social life a certain formality and conservatism that reflect this fact. This conservatism has its regrettable side, of course. The walking dead are out in numbers - the mediocrats, the anti-hothead vote."
- "Perhaps this Utopia of the mediocrats is not so far off; perhaps it is time for the meritocracy to assert itself."
- "And our mediocrats are satisfied. Mediocrity is not, of course, a specifically modern sin; what is specifically modern is its overwhelming acceptance as the normal condition of humanity."