Definition of "garden-variety" []

• Common; unremarkable: situation comedies and other garden-variety television fare. (adjective)

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• "The lawsuits, which were recently combined before a single federal judge in Miami, allege that the HMOs engage in what Scruggs calls "garden-variety consumer fraud.""
• "The petunias and begonias that shoppers see in big-box retailers every spring may look garden-variety to untrained eyes, but they are special breeds that survive a grueling gantlet of field tests and focus groups to weed out their less hardy or floriferous brethren."
• "The woman said Congress lacked authority to punish her for the chemical assaults, because they amounted to garden-variety crimes normally punished by states."