bog-standard

adjective

British, informal

: having no special or interesting qualities : average

a bog-standard speech

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Unfortunately, many of the attacks used to acquire such initial access to connected devices involve bog-standard brute-force credential login attempts. —

Davey Winder, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024 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