"common or garden" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} common or garden (not comparable)
  1. Alternative form of common-or-garden Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: common-or-garden
    Sense id: en-common_or_garden-en-adj-8ueoFalH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1968, John Wisdom, Other Minds, page 141:",
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          "ref": "1993, Julia Annas, The Morality of Happiness, →ISBN, page 262:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1998, Nigel Kerner, The Song of the Greys, →ISBN, page 143:",
          "text": "Like any common or garden racist would seek to do to someone he or she deems as different, or lesser.",
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          "ref": "2015, Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader: - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 242:",
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