In classic British understatement, quite poor doesn't mean mediocre — it means absolutely terrible. This is meiosis at its most English: the politer the language, the worse the thing being described. Quite poor is the phrase a British person uses when they'd rather die than say something was genuinely awful. Context and tone do all the heavy lifting.
The referee's decisions were, to put it charitably, quite poor — the home team was robbed.
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(UK, meiotic) Terrible.
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