halfway decent
idiom
: fairly good
I'm willing to eat anywhere as long as the food is halfway decent.
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The key to both those alternatives is that Milton was halfway decent as a fifth guard last season.
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John Hollinger, New York Times, 18 June 2025
In the season finale, Napoleon’s coronation banquet suddenly balloons from an intimate gathering of 500 to a near free-for-all with 5,000 attendees, leading Antonin to call in every halfway decent cook in Paris.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 June 2025
Since then, pictures have popped up all over the place, since anyone taking the Level 9 Tour at NASA's Johnson Space Center had a halfway decent chance of getting a peek.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2013
With seasonal specials and special episodes of Your Favorite Shows and seemingly every halfway decent big-screen holiday movie of the last 30 years hauled out to run in a loop on cable TV, the only defense is surrender.
—Robert Lloyd, Boston Herald, 28 Nov. 2024
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John Hollinger, New York Times, 18 June 2025
In the season finale, Napoleon’s coronation banquet suddenly balloons from an intimate gathering of 500 to a near free-for-all with 5,000 attendees, leading Antonin to call in every halfway decent cook in Paris.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 June 2025
Since then, pictures have popped up all over the place, since anyone taking the Level 9 Tour at NASA's Johnson Space Center had a halfway decent chance of getting a peek.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2013
With seasonal specials and special episodes of Your Favorite Shows and seemingly every halfway decent big-screen holiday movie of the last 30 years hauled out to run in a loop on cable TV, the only defense is surrender.
—Robert Lloyd, Boston Herald, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Halfway decent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/halfway%20decent. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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