Adverb : a passably good novel. From Dictionary.com.
For most of those years, Congress was run passably well. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Public Thinks Dems Are Screwing Up, But Still Likes Them] Reference
And yet ---- a new face, a new face and passably pretty. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
If you think I am a passably good fellow you are mistaken. From Wordnik.com. [Lodusky] Reference
She had never felt passably elegant or frivolous or lovely. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
With all these, he found Tyrrel more than passably acquainted. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
There were others that were just passably neutral in the tribes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2007] Reference
She just wished sometimes that she could be at least passably pretty. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing with Clara]
Altheim people so far are passably civil to us, but sometimes one has. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
A mechanical man can play a part in them not very well, but passably well. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
At that time she had still thought herself passably pretty and attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
But in the end, I need what it does well better than what it does only passably. From Wordnik.com. [Blackberry 9700 Review: It's a Phone, Stupid] Reference
She was passably handsome, and nothing could be gentler than her face and voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
He tries to forget what was most charming in her, and has succeeded passably well. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Minervy passably presentable as to raiment, but there they gave up the obligation. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference
VON RIBBENTROP: I spoke it well in the past and I think I speak it passably well today. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
Some passably good people have been said, upon occasions, to hold a candle to the devil. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
He found it convenient to pay his debt in this coin, his creditor being passably pretty. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
The book is well written, entertaining, passably authentic -- and ultimately unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [Bond Barely Lives Twice] Reference
Alice reminded him of Ann Grant, a young girl brought up in Lochdubh, only passably pretty. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Gossip]
This is a kind of ancient state, moreover, that suits passably well with provincial thrift. From Wordnik.com. [The Deserted Woman] Reference
There were some very pretty girls at this Party, as well as some passably handsome men; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
It is passably difficult to make an impression on what has ceased to exist these thirty years. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
She was in her middle thirties, more than passably good-looking and gave her name as Mrs. Turpin. From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
Keeping even passably tidy was impossible, and in personal cleanliness a London scavenger could give. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
I had to mentally translate into English, in which I am passably fluent, to make sense of the phrase. From Wordnik.com. ['The City & The City'] Reference
She looked almost passably plain instead of ugly-plain, she thought with a private smile for the glass. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing with Clara]
As Prices Are Nearing a Peak A week of sliding commodities prices and passably healthy stocks left U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Treasurys to Draw Little Interest] Reference
She seemed rather a small cause for such a serious result -- passably pretty, and not much of an actress. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
She had a passably good voice, and she knew it -- also, she knew that Marjorie could scarcely carry a tune. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts' Good Turn] Reference
Union working conditions, work rules, and safety standards made most jobs in the mill at least passably safe. From Wordnik.com. [HOW TO AVOID THE UNION] Reference
Like most dysthymics, 40-year-old Annette Dawson (a pseudonym) has always gotten along passably without medication. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture Of Prozac] Reference
In those evaluation questionnaires about my carbon footprint, and various other ways of thrift, I come out passably. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Susan Corso: The Imagination of Enough] Reference
But Alexander had been more than passably understanding and had refused his sister's passionate pleas for a Betan scalp. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
There is an old dictum that a baseball player must do five things passably well: run, field, throw, hit, and hit for power. From Wordnik.com. [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference
Most smartphones now come with music-playback software that does the basics passably well - certainly as good as the new Nano. From Wordnik.com. [With new line of iPods, smaller isn't always better] Reference
Anyone who took Caro at face value — as a passably pretty woman of no particular power — would be committing a grave error. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
Truhands and foothands worked together to handle a rifle-like weapon that for all its svelte design looked more than passably intimidating. From Wordnik.com. [Running from the Deity]
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