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- adverb In an
underwhelming way.
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Examples
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I'll be interested to hear how those involved with Avatar's creation ultimately explain the underwhelmingly amemic script.
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In its stinging report, however, the commission, appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the spill, called the project "underwhelmingly effective, overwhelmingly expensive."
Oil Spill Panel: Bobby Jindal's Sand Barriers Are A Waste Of $200 Million AP 2010
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Not appalling (like the new Knight Rider - which is truly a televisual abortion if ever there were one) but just underwhelmingly sub-par.
Fringe Gets Full Season; Spielberg/Cody’s Tara Debuts January 18th | /Film 2008
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Bobby Jindal wasted $220 million building controversial sand berms that captured a "minuscule amount" of oil and proved to be "underwhelmingly effective" and "overwhelmingly expensive."
Oil-spill panel calls Jindal's sand berms a $220M waste 2010
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The report acknowledges that there's a Captain Hindsight element to these post-mortems: The Commission staff can comfortably conclude that the decision to green-light the underwhelmingly effective, overwhelmingly expensive Louisiana berms project was flawed.
Obama's oil commission skewers Jindal, Nungesser -- and Obama Joel Achenbach 2010
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In its stinging report, however, the commission, appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the spill, called the project "underwhelmingly effective, overwhelmingly expensive."
Oil Spill Panel: Bobby Jindal's Sand Barriers Are A Waste Of $200 Million AP 2010
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I saw that very billboard today, looked pretty awesome especially when followed by the underwhelmingly designed "It's Complicated" billboard LOL
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Giuliani is not up to the job of Prez as he is underwhelmingly qualified.
Randall Terry: President Rudy Would Be Worse Than Hillary 2009
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It must be a gift similar to what Ronald Reagan had -- another man of underwhelmingly moderate gifts, who nevertheless achieved spectacular success that his gifts, by themselves, could not seem to explain.
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If "many" insurgents who are Iraqi are wrongly "lumped into this group," isn't the obvious conclusion that al Qaeda in Meso-whatever is underwhelmingly Iraqi?
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