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run of the mill

adjective as in colorless

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Most cases involve significant mental illness, not run-of-the-mill depression or anxiety.

The results yield computer chips 9,000 times faster than a run-of-the-mill computer, using only the power of a tablet PC.

A c--t is different than your run-of-the-mill jerk (or scoundrel, or creep, or whatever).

Sabo is as incoherent and hateful as any run-of-the-mill troll.

The ad, for former Republican city council member Carl DeMaio, is in many ways a run-of-the-mill American political commercial.

The street was full of people—strangers who didn't look like your run-of-the-mill artist.

This is not—and when I say this, I mean the Oswald case—is not an ordinary run-of-the-mill-type of case.

Feature story, maybe, but it's pretty run-of-the-mill stuff, even at that.

Knowledge like this was too much for the ordinary run-of-the-mill person.

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On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to run-of-the-mill, such as: middling, undistinguished, common, commonplace, customary, and dime a dozen.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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