underachieve
underperform
overperform
come good
trail behind
underimpress
overachieve
low speed, high drag
hardscrabble
poorly
go nowhere
patchiness
fall short
slippage
mail it in
no screaming hell
mediocre
devalue
to little avail
unlikely
vain
fruitless
indictment
failure
sleeveless
downshift
falling
shortfalling
scant
futile
bootless
shan
do
mal-
failing
underachievement
meanly
punch below one's weight
underachiever
Clemson
fall behind
underattainment
shitty
suffer by comparison
muddle through
suboptimally
subfunctioning
flat out
hypolobated
doggishness
wimpy
dog it
cold spell
bad
half-assed
wimpish
odds-on
underperforming
on form
scrape through
unpromising
nonefficiency
nonperforming
shoddily
unsuccess
meagreness
nonconsistency
uncatchableness
underadvantaged
scantness
ineffective
ambitionless
qualityless
unsuccessful
inefficient
unambitious
exiguity
lowen
meagerness
poorness
scantiness
underresponse
leanness
almost doesn't count
dial it in
midlist
fault
nonpalpability
milksoppy
minor league
surge
go off the boil
mincedness
priggishness
milksoppish
demerit
uneventfulness

English words for 'perform less well or with less success than expected'

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