Halfway decent is an informal English phrase with two related but distinct flavours.
We're halfway decent at addressing trauma, but generally our culture sucks at even recognizing grief, let alone processing it.
I'm not sure having to post two prelude graphs worth of caveats and commands just to get a halfway decent answer is the flex Andreesen thinks it is for his shit word salad bot.
Halfway decent is an informal English phrase with two related but distinct flavours. Used literally, it means barely adequate — something that meets only a minimum acceptable standard. But in American idiomatic use, it often flips slightly positive, meaning genuinely good or better than expected — as in 'he's halfway decent at cooking' meaning he's actually pretty good. Context and tone determine which reading applies. The phrase is conversational in register and widely understood across English-speaking regions.
After years of eating campus food, any halfway decent home-cooked meal felt like a revelation.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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Well, you are insane, but that aside, Skip was a halfway decent sportswriter at one point in his career, then he discovered TV...
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No more than adequate.
“We're halfway decent at addressing trauma, but generally our culture sucks at even recognizing grief, let alone processing it.”
“I'm not sure having to post two prelude graphs worth of caveats and commands just to get a halfway decent answer is the flex Andreesen thinks it is for his shit word salad bot.”
“Well, you are insane, but that aside, Skip was a halfway decent sportswriter at one point in his career, then he discovered TV...”
“If someone makes another platform and it runs halfway decent and doesn't do the shit they've done with jesse singal, bill kezos, etc etc etc then I'm ngl I'd be fucking evangalizing for that place”
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(US, idiomatic) Good - better than expected.
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