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third-person singular simple present underwhelms, present participle underwhelming, simple past and past participle underwhelmed
To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly. quotations examples
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.
2021 August 5, Shira Ovide, “YouTube Is Underwhelming”, in The New York Times