middling
mi duh ling
- n any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
- v put in the middle
- s lacking exceptional quality or ability
the performance was middling at best - r to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
- With a sweet lefty swing fit for Yankee Stadium's short right-field porch, Murcer was the best player on some middling Yankee teams of the late '60s and early '70s.
- The Golden Compass was middling-good, with a beguiling central performance by 13-year-old Dakota Blue Richards, a slinky turn by Nicole Kidman as an evil-stepmom type and a nifty .
- But what he really wanted to do was build cars, which he did with middling failure until the doors closed in 1952.