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garden-variety
adjective as in ordinary
adjective as in ordinary
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adjective as in average
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adjective as in prosaic
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- actual
- blah
- boring
- clean
- colorless
- common
- commonplace
- dead
- diddly
- dry
- dull
- factual
- flat
- hackneyed
- ho-hum
- irksome
- lackluster
- lifeless
- literal
- lowly
- lusterless
- matter-of-fact
- monotonous
- nothing
- nowhere
- ordinary
- pabulum
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- practicable
- practical
- prose
- prosy
- routine
- square
- stale
- tame
- tedious
- trite
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- uninspiring
- vanilla
- vapid
- yawn
- zero
adjective as in run-of-the-mill
adjective as in standard
adjective as in undistinguished
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adjective as in unexceptional
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adjective as in usual
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adjective as in vulgar
adjective as in formulaic
adjective as in garden-variety
adjective as in unremarkable
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adjective as in commonplace
adjective as in everyday
adjective as in familiar
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adjective as in humdrum
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Example Sentences
That might only be garden variety hypocrisy were it not for the fact that you actually could make a difference.
Others suffer a nasty twist of fate that balloons their garden-variety misbehavior into a superscandal.
He loves the retail aspects of politics and relates well to garden-variety voters.
Kerry, like so many of his Senate brethren, is your garden-variety bore.
Forget your garden-variety tale of congressmen frequenting working girls.
I do not mean to imply that stories of the stork and cabbage-garden variety are to be altogether excluded.
I am that garden variety, and it took the exercising of many heart interests to toughen my cardiac organ.
It was plain the kitten had never known anything of home or a fireside and was simply of the humble garden variety of cat.
Such points gave him an air of distinction, and marked him out as quite different from the common or garden variety of cats.
It somewhat resembles the Yellow Malta, and is a good garden variety.
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On this page you'll find 674 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to garden variety, such as: common, conventional, dull, generic, humble, and mediocre.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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