underachiever

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Recent Examples of underachiever On the other side, some health-care underachievers like Bristol Myers and Danaher are finally bouncing after their rough couple of months. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 1 July 2025 The film stars Vince Vaughn as Peter La Fleur, a charismatic underachiever and proprietor of a rundown gym called Average Joe’s, and Ben Stiller as White Goodman, the power-mullet-sporting, Fu-Manchu-d, egomaniacal owner of Globo Gym, a gleaming monolith of fitness. Lesley O'Toole, Variety, 10 June 2025 How did this guy turn out to be such an underachiever and such an awkward father? Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 In general, the brand has been somewhat of an underachiever in terms of its revenue contribution to Nike over the years. Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for underachiever
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slacker
Noun
  • Nicely played by Keanu Reeves, the character is the embodiment of every slacker screwup who’s going to just stumble through life, knocking over everything and everyone in his path.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In The Big Lebowski, thugs mistake the titular slacker (Bridges) for the wealthy Jeffrey Lebowski, sending him on a wild investigation with his pal Walter (John Goodman) into a ransom plot involving Lebowski’s young wife (Tara Reid).
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Underachiever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underachiever. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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