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Underwhelm

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly.

    "The fact that I even mentioned YouTube in the same paragraph as the middling TV company ViacomCBS and Twitter … well, that says something about how YouTube has underwhelmed for some time."

Etymology

From under- + whelm: a humorous coinage by novel negation of overwhelm first recorded in the 1950s.

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