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underachiever

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Underachiever (noun) means someone who does not do as well as they are able to.

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Someone who does not do as well as they are able to.

"Bart: (reading his permanent record) "Underachiever and proud of it." How old is this thing?" — “Skinner's Sense of Snow”, Skinner's Sense of Snow (2000)

"For the TLC undertaking, he employs only underachievers, cronies who have been hired for their ability to make the work site madcap and, therefore, filmable." — Ned Martel, The Unlikely Progress of a Barely Motivated Underachiever (2005)

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