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a. (alternative spelling of garden variety English)
Usage examples of "garden-variety".
Dealing with regular males, the garden-variety mems were hard enough, but the few times she had crossed paths with a primale, she had suffered near meltdowns.
The majority are just normal run-of-the-mill everyday garden-variety suicides, she says, but in between are a few strange cases.
The burglaries exhibited certain skills that are not possessed by your garden-variety burglar.
To him, this was the stuff of garden-variety porn, the fuel of the psychopathic minds that feed on fantasies of sexual aberrancies and violence.
The vessel they referred to was not the famous Sea Devil raider, captamed by the redoubtable John Maffitt, but a garden-variety commercial blockade runner that was captured and appropriated into the navy as a warship they named Florida.
Dena was terrified—Jerome was not talking about a garden-variety riot, blacks tearing up black neighbourhoods, he was hinting at military insurrection in white territory.
How did you guess that these cases were not the garden-variety overdoses you people see day in, day out?
We’re prepared for everything from the garden-variety pneumonias that can be cured with a hypo to cases of cellular failure that aren’t so easily diagnosed.
We're prepared for everything from the garden-variety pneumonias that can be cured with a hypo to cases of cellular failure that aren't so easily diagnosed.
If it was not, we were dealing with a garden-variety practical joker here-and my money was, reluctantly, on the Duck.
Clark probably feared that some wise guy would publish the number (375-2400), thus inviting input from hundreds of lowly, garden-variety voters.