garden-variety
common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
Origin of garden-variety
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How to use garden-variety in a sentence
That might only be garden variety hypocrisy were it not for the fact that you actually could make a difference.
Time to Come Home, Edward Snowden, and Stop Hiding Behind a Corrupt Regime | Michael Daly | March 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOthers 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.
The Pros and Cons of Joe Biden Hitting the Campaign Trail | Michelle Cottle | March 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTKerry, like so many of his Senate brethren, is your garden-variety bore.
Mitt Romney: The GOP’s Own John Kerry, or Is He More an Al Gore? | Michelle Cottle | January 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTForget your garden-variety tale of congressmen frequenting working girls.
Barney Frank Throws In the Towel, Won’t Seek Reelection in 2012 | Michelle Cottle | November 29, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
I do not mean to imply that stories of the stork and cabbage-garden variety are to be altogether excluded.
The Sexual Life of the Child | Albert MollI am that garden variety, and it took the exercising of many heart interests to toughen my cardiac organ.
The Golden Bird | Maria Thompson DaviessIt was plain the kitten had never known anything of home or a fireside and was simply of the humble garden variety of cat.
The Great Small Cat and Others | May E. SouthworthSuch points gave him an air of distinction, and marked him out as quite different from the common or garden variety of cats.
The Story Girl | Lucy Maud MontgomeryIt somewhat resembles the Yellow Malta, and is a good garden variety.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America | Fearing Burr
Other Idioms and Phrases with 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]
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