All 3 Uses
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Uglies
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- The next Tally was a much more standard morphological model, with almond-shaped brown eyes, straight black hair with long bangs, the dark lips set to maximum fullness.
"Pretty generic, Tally."
"Oh, come on! I worked on this one for a long time."p. 39.2 *generic = looking like a group or class rather than like an individual - The forest to either side was a black void full of wild and ancient trees, nothing like the generic carbon-dioxide suckers that decorated the city.†
p. 54.7
- Clothes, bedding, furniture, the pictures on the wallscreen-it had all reverted back to Generic Ugly.†
p. 107.5
Definitions:
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(generic) applicable to an entire class or group rather than to a specific thing; or a non-branded version of something such as a medication or grocery
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, "generic" can mean: relating to, common to, or descriptive of all members of a genus (as in the genus and species of taxonomy). It is from this meaning that today's more common meaning probably originated.