halfway decent
idiom
: fairly good
I'm willing to eat anywhere as long as the food is halfway decent.
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After spending the last several years in quarterback purgatory, the New York Giants may finally have a halfway decent starting signal-caller in rookie Jaxson Dart.
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Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Nov. 2025
Best Stock Spotlight: GM and Ford Sean - GM has been a halfway decent investment the past decade, annualizing 9.5% a year, but Ford has been horrible.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
The pop star voices Smurfette and sings her little blue heart out in the kids' movie, which for a Smurfs movie ends up being halfway decent.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 July 2025
Netflix does have a halfway decent track record with this between attempts like Avatar: The Last Airbender and genuine hits like One Piece.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
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Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Nov. 2025
Best Stock Spotlight: GM and Ford Sean - GM has been a halfway decent investment the past decade, annualizing 9.5% a year, but Ford has been horrible.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
The pop star voices Smurfette and sings her little blue heart out in the kids' movie, which for a Smurfs movie ends up being halfway decent.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 July 2025
Netflix does have a halfway decent track record with this between attempts like Avatar: The Last Airbender and genuine hits like One Piece.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
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