Definition of "subpar" [subpar]

• Not measuring up to traditional standards of performance, value, or production. (adjective)
• Below par in a hole, round, or game of golf. (adjective)

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• "Specifically, she says Frons installed a new head writer for the show in 2008 — Charles Pratt, Jr. by name — whose writing she called "subpar.""
• "Like a fake story between books would seem like a fanfiction (in other words a subpar story meant to supplement an awesome one) I think any non PJ movie would be like a fanfilm of the original, or else go to such efforts to not seem like one that it will lose everything that was so great about the originals to begin with."
• "But so often great premises are lost in subpar writing and becoming too attached to one’s agenda (as you said, it was written to comment on right-wing crap that was going on after 9/11″)."