halfway decent
idiom
: fairly good
I'm willing to eat anywhere as long as the food is halfway decent.
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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.
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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
The key to both those alternatives is that Milton was halfway decent as a fifth guard last season.
—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
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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
The key to both those alternatives is that Milton was halfway decent as a fifth guard last season.
—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
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“Halfway decent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/halfway%20decent. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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