underachiever
Example Sentences
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It has been a year of the underdog - and also, in a couple of cases, the underachiever.
From BBC • May 27, 2025
A committed underachiever, Remi was going blind in her left eye but too slowly to warrant anybody’s concern.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2024
I vowed to remain an underachiever in Cancer World.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022
In this interpretation, Wenwu looms as the big bad tiger dad to Shang-Chi, the gifted underachiever who’s gone West and gone soft.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2021
Bart Simpson, the underachiever, "mediocre and proud of it," is a model for everyone who is told that what really counts is to feel good, period.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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