underwhelm
Example Sentences
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This reality is prompting new curiosity about why, exactly, Europe’s economic performance is so underwhelming.
The results were so underwhelming that Roche’s stock fell 5 percent on the news.
From New York Times
England are still strong favourites, even if it wouldn’t be an entirely underwhelming experience were Broad to dismiss Amla and de Villiers with consecutive deliveries.
From The Guardian
Fees often are presented as an alignment of client-adviser interests and a solution to churning—an argument I find underwhelming given the money at stake for firms that convert from brokerage to fee-based business.
There may be another way, at some point, to celebrate Aaliyah in film, but ham-handed, underwhelming efforts like this don’t help.
From New York Times
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