garden-variety

[ gahr-dn-vuh-rahy-i-tee ]

/ ˈgɑr dn vəˌraɪ ɪ ti /

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adjective

common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.

Origin of garden-variety

First recorded in 1925–30

Words nearby garden-variety

garden-path, garden pea, garden snail, Garden State, garden suburb, garden-variety, garden warbler, garderobe, Gardiner, Gardner, Gardner-Diamond syndrome

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Example sentences from the Web for garden-variety

Others suffer a nasty twist of fate that balloons their garden-variety misbehavior into a superscandal.
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He loves the retail aspects of politics and relates well to garden-variety voters.
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Kerry, like so many of his Senate brethren, is your garden-variety bore.
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At first blush, Vania Sisk's MySpace page looks like garden-variety millennial narcissism.
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Idioms and Phrases with garden-variety

garden variety

Ordinary, common, as in I don't want anything special in a VCR—the garden variety will do. This term alludes to a common plant as opposed to a specially bred hybrid. [Colloquial; 1920]