Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not measuring up to traditional standards of performance, value, or production.
- adjective Below par in a hole, round, or game of golf.
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- adjective Being of less than a
traditional oraccepted standard - adjective golf
below par - adjective finance Trading a price below
face value .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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."
Susan Lucci Blasts ABC Head of Daytime for Demise of All My Children 2011
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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.
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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″).
Xombies: Apocalypse Blues (Avoid This Like the Plague) « A Working Title 2009
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TAMPA - Verizon Communications Inc. could pay a heavy price for what state regulators call subpar law enforcement official Tuesday ...
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TAMPA - Verizon Communications Inc. could pay a heavy price for what state regulators call subpar
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Fassel first became a head coach with the University of Utah, four seasons best described as subpar for an overall record of 25-33.
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There were reports as far back as 2005 that some of the consultants on the project were "subpar" and that US contractors were receiving widespread criticism locally.
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There were reports as far back as 2005 that some of the consultants on the project were "subpar" and that US contractors were receiving widespread criticism locally.
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More than 100 residents launched the strike in 2008 after building conditions became "subpar" and negotiations with the complex's owner, the Lightstone Group, stalled, said Phylisa Carter, a staff attorney with Bread for the City, the District nonprofit organization that handled the cases of several striking tenants.
2-year tenants' strike at Marbury Plaza ends with plan for $5 million in repairs 2010
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This is the kind of subpar growth net of inflation we had in the early 1990s and much of the 1970s.
What Grows An Economy? Rich Karlgaard 2010
atapizdun commented on the word subpar
@a yeah, it's funny how it has two different meanings
October 26, 2011