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common or garden en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of common-or-garden.
   alt of common-or-garden
   • Where common or garden matters are adequately coped with in the DN8, as for instance in connection with the Pastons, or with such personages as Dr Bentley and Archbishop Thomson, they have been largely left to that work. 2015, Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader: - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 242:
   • The author of the Magna Moralia has a passage which corresponds to Nicomachean Ethics IX 8 quite closely, but refuses to call the virtuous person 'self-loving' (philautos), reserving the word for common or garden selfish regard, and insisting that the virtuous person should be called 'good-loving' (philagathos) instead. 1993, Julia Annas, The Morality of Happiness, →ISBN, page 262:
   • Let's see what's wrong with the common or garden claims to knowledge, and by refusing in those cases to speak of knowledge set our minds on higher things, gain a glimpse of perfect knowledge, though perhaps without hope of reaching it. 1968, John Wisdom, Other Minds, page 141:
   • Like any common or garden racist would seek to do to someone he or she deems as different, or lesser. 1998, Nigel Kerner, The Song of the Greys, →ISBN, page 143: