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• n  a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates

• Not exactly an underachiever, but Shulman has set himself the challenge of becoming the first Rabbi ever to serve in Congress and the first blind congressman since 1935.
• And yet, because success was never enough among those brothers, Ted Kennedy cast the shadow of an underachiever.
• Bart Simpson is an underachiever "and proud of it," as a million T shirts read, back when The Simpsons began its run on Fox and he was the first fad of the '90s.

• underperformer
• nonachiever

News & Articles

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• Phillies rally past Rockies, hold on for second straight win
  DENVER — If the Phillies offense were a depressed underachiever with an identity crisis, then Coors Field was Stuart Smalley with his mirror and an ego-boosting recitation Friday night.
  June 15, 2013 - Delaware County Daily Times

Quotes

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• Karrie Webb in USA Today
  Webb called Durdin "the biggest underachiever in Australian golf."
• Stewart Cink in ESPN
  I always said that I felt like an underachiever, for years and years,Cink said. "I felt like I had a lot of game, that I played well, but never really had the number of wins to show for it that I felt like I had a chance to grab a hold of....
• JaMarcus Russell in NBC Bay Area
  The only team with any interest in Russell, the New York Jets, told the New York Daily News that they are "no longer interested in the career underachiever."