bog-standard

adjective

British, informal
: having no special or interesting qualities : average
a bog-standard speech

Examples of bog-standard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Now, however, Gino’s lawyer, Julie A. Sacks, described all this as merely a description of a bog-standard academic. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024 The recipes come with five- to 10-minute prep times but aren't your bog-standard pasta sauces; individual salmon en croûte and satay chicken curries mean meal planning doesn't have to be all about mince. Ellie O'Mahoney, The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Feb. 2024 France already fined TikTok €5 million earlier this year over an unrelated issue about cookie consent, but there’s a difference between such bog-standard privacy violations and those involving millions of children. David Meyer, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023

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“Bog-standard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bog-standard. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.

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