How To Use Underachiever In A Sentence
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Unfortunately for our beloved Sean Elliott, the Spurs are notoriously soft underachievers come playoff time.
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And yes, even the players acknowledge the team is a perennial underachiever.
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Pshaw: who wants to be the quirky underachiever?
Times, Sunday Times
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Parents of chronic underachievers are also likely to link large rewards to unrealistic improvements in performance, such as straight As for a child who has been making Ds and Fs for the last two yean.
The Unmotivated Child
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Conor O'Neill is your typical underachiever, a good-looking, sulky drifter who's a ticket scalper and a gambler on the wrong side of the dice.
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Schools are mollycoddling pupils, producing a generation of unhealthy underachievers, the government's education agency has warned.
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His presence goes a long way toward explaining why the Seahawks have gone from early-season underachievers to playoff contenders.
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Sales managers aren't likely to be impressed with this self-proclaimed underachiever.
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She Googled me, looked at my website, and wrote something along the lines of, "Wow you're so accomplished! I'm the greatest underachiever of all time.
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The other is a chronic underachiever, undependable, disreputable, a thoroughly wild child.
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They contested one county final in that time but had such a rich and bountiful supply of under-age talent that the senior team were regarded as underachievers.
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As we have seen, it can be very difficult to distinguish between a gifted student who is genuinely bored with the pace of the regular curriculum and an underachiever who uses the term bored to describe her inner state of anxiety and emptiness.
The Unmotivated Child
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Underachievers, they were known for losing the mildest battle of nerves, not a cornered tiger among them.
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He's been called, variously, a showboat, a stud, a lazybones, a workhorse, a whiner, a powerhouse, an overachiever, an underachiever, you name it.
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The other is a chronic underachiever, undependable, disreputable, a thoroughly wild child.
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The Volunteers upheld their reputation of talented underachievers with the first-round loss and Harris again faltered in NCAA Tournament play.
NCAA Men's Basketball - N.C. Charlotte vs. Tennessee
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But what good is bawdy when its purveyors, from low to high, seem unfailingly recruited for their unsightliness, and act like overwrought underachievers or maundering bystanders?
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He's been called, variously, a showboat, a stud, a lazybones, a workhorse, a whiner, a powerhouse, an overachiever, an underachiever, you name it.
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In fact, the model minority designation heralded upon the AAPI community in 1966 had less to do with celebrating student achievement, and had more to do with reinforcing negative stereotypes of African-American students as underachievers at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Truth About 'Model Minorities'
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OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. A 53-year-old former superstar whose longtime caddie is battling Lou Gehrig's disease and a self-proclaimed underachiever whose bags were carried by his recently fired father shot 5 under par to tie for the lead in the U.S.
USATODAY.com - Watson, Quigley lead U.S. Open, Tiger at even after first round
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Nothing," said Tom Bertram, one of several chronic underachievers employed by the Knoxville advertising firm.
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Overnight they went from well-regarded indie underachievers to national treasures.
The Sun
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Respect has been hard to come by for the Syracuse product, who was touted as an underachiever in college is expected to be a tweener in the pros.
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Despite a massive budget and state-of-the-art facilities including not one but two test tracks, they remain perennial underachievers.
