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middlingly
adverb
informaluk /ˈmɪd.əl.ɪŋ.li/ us /ˈmɪd.əl.ɪŋ.li/
in a way that is medium or average, and neither very good nor very bad:
The classes taught by the new teacher did well, and the others only middlingly.
He was only middlingly successful at university, and later at the BBC.
She is a middlingly famous photographer who doesn't need fame to have some success on the internet.
He was born in rural France to a middlingly important family.
She went on to open a middlingly successful flower shop.
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Quite good, or not very good
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adequacy
adequate
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presentably
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spotty
the/your average bearidiom
up to scratchidiom
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