Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Passably; tolerably.
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- adverb In a
middling manner;averagely ,moderately .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“I've read your work when you are middlingly troubled, and it's far inferior to anything you produce when you're emotionally well.”
In the hot seat Matt Potter 2010
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Nadia is a middlingly successful novelist in her 50s, difficult and introverted, who was given the desk in 1972 by Daniel Varsky, a Chilean friend of a friend.
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They received bogus results: They either did well in English and middlingly at math, or the converse.
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We didn't get in there, unfortunately, as something top secret, or at least middlingly secret, occurred to keep us out.
WorldCon 2008 / Denvention3 Report Lou Anders 2008
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The answer's simple... female celebrities - provided they are still middlingly sexually attractive - can be exploited for just as long as they:
Crib sheet: The British press's enduring love affair with Madonna | Megan Carpentier 2010
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We didn't get in there, unfortunately, as something top secret, or at least middlingly secret, occurred to keep us out.
Archive 2008-08-01 Lou Anders 2008
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In all likelihood it really was an empty entertainment, middlingly acted, childishly written, and the reason Lindelof/Cuse's final statement seems like a shitty ending is that it has less to do with the events of the show than the experience of writing it.
Lost (2004–2010) Adam Roberts 2010
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This last sharp bow-out could be the most intriguing of the lot, stuffed as it is with middlingly sane people.
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A person's form of speaking, for example, should be "moderately, middlingly," taking care "not to speak hurriedly, not to pant, nor to squeak, lest it be said of thee that thou art a groaner, a growler, a squeaker."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Those numbers raise a question: What if a president were wildly popular with one group, and only middlingly popular with another group and yet was often portrayed as being hugely popular with the whole group?
Excluding Blacks From The National Collective » Sociological Images 2009
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