underachiever
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He is regarded as an underachiever with a gaping hole in his otherwise glittering CV because he has yet to win the Masters at Augusta to complete the career Grand Slam.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 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
In sports, it’s customary to blame the most flamboyant underachiever you can find, and OBJ has done little to help his image lately.
From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2021
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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