middling

IPA: mˈɪdʌɫɪŋ

noun

  • Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.
  • (in the plural) Preceded by the: people of moderate means; members of the middle class.

adjective

  • Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre.
  • (colloquial, regional British) In fairly good health.

adverb

  • (colloquial, regional British) Fairly, moderately, somewhat.
  • (colloquial, regional British) Not too badly, with modest success.
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Examples of "middling" in Sentences

  • This far, Team Obama has tried to tweak a middling message, at times a day late and a dollar short.
  • "It is so wrong to suggest that this is somehow some kind of middling improvement for the American people," he said.
  • Among what may be termed the middling classes, I have been very much amused with the compound of vanity and ignorance which I have met with.
  • From domestic uneasiness a man has a thousand resources; in middling life, the tavern, in high life, the gaming-table, suspends the anxiety of thought.
  • Joshua Rothkopf, senior film writer at Time Out New York, hands out a maximum of six stars (which unintentionally enables studios to label his middling recommendations as four-star reviews in ads).
  • But just as well, let's have people with military experience; let's have people from all walks of life, people from the top-echelon schools but also people from junior colleges and the so-called middling schools -- that's the pageantry of America ...
  • At the same time, American politics avoids the harsh truths of the world's historic transition towards a place with many competitors, other centers of power, and with reduced opportunity for what Benjamin Franklin called the middling people in America.
  • Lawrence Watt-Evans' Ethshar series is kind of middling magic; the talent needed to use a specific magic is pretty rare, but there are so many types of magic 8 to 15 depending on who you ask that a sizable percentage of the population has a talent for something.
  • At any rate, the release of Praire Wind gives me an opportunity to voice how much Neil Young's music has meant to me for a very long time, and, because of that, how much leeway I'm willing to give him when he produces an album that's maybe only "middling" rather than great.
  • Cases, again, which have to do with neither of these, and where the intention is not to get the hearer to do, or to pronounce judgment upon anything, but only to give him pleasure, occupy as it were a middle place between the former two, and are on that account called middling, or moderate.

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