garden-variety
adjective
gar·den-va·ri·e·ty
ˈgär-dᵊn-və-ˈrī-ə-tē 
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Rife’s is a garden-variety strain of American contempt: cheap, lazy and sure to find broad agreement.
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2023
Over the past few weeks, prosecutors have cast the case as a garden-variety fraud investigation.
—J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
What are American metropolises if not hotbeds for garden-variety burglars and loons?
—Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
And the prisoner was not some garden-variety guerrilla.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Sep. 2023
Inspired by serial killer Rodney Alcala’s 1978 appearance on The Dating Game, the film links his murders — he’s believed to have killed over 100 people, mostly women — with the garden-variety sexism faced by women everywhere.
—Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
At first, Jean M Loftus, MD, seems like a garden-variety plastic surgeon.
—Parizaad Khan Sethi, Allure, 24 Aug. 2023
Brian is eventually revealed to be something worse than a garden-variety scumbag, a disappointing development in a film that felt more urgent as a testament to the way garden-variety scumbags get protected by communities every day.
—Vulture, 20 Feb. 2023
The chips are more in the light, crispy mode of wonton crisps than standard, garden-variety tortilla chips.
—Lawrence Specker | , al, 26 Jan. 2023
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2023
Over the past few weeks, prosecutors have cast the case as a garden-variety fraud investigation.
—J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
What are American metropolises if not hotbeds for garden-variety burglars and loons?
—Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
And the prisoner was not some garden-variety guerrilla.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Sep. 2023
Inspired by serial killer Rodney Alcala’s 1978 appearance on The Dating Game, the film links his murders — he’s believed to have killed over 100 people, mostly women — with the garden-variety sexism faced by women everywhere.
—Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
At first, Jean M Loftus, MD, seems like a garden-variety plastic surgeon.
—Parizaad Khan Sethi, Allure, 24 Aug. 2023
Brian is eventually revealed to be something worse than a garden-variety scumbag, a disappointing development in a film that felt more urgent as a testament to the way garden-variety scumbags get protected by communities every day.
—Vulture, 20 Feb. 2023
The chips are more in the light, crispy mode of wonton crisps than standard, garden-variety tortilla chips.
—Lawrence Specker | , al, 26 Jan. 2023
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First Known Use
1928, in the meaning defined above
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garden-variety
adjective
: ordinary entry 2 sense 2, commonplace
not the flu, just a garden-variety cold
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