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It’ll have to do: talking about things that aren’t very good or very bad

On By Liz WalterIn Synonyms, the English language, Vocabulary17 Comments

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a young man in a a bright yellow t-shirt shrugging and looking unconvinced, as though he is saying that what he is looking at is not very bad but not very good
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by Liz Walter

Back in 2016, my colleague Kate Woodford wrote a pair of posts on ways of describing good and bad things. However, sometimes things aren’t particularly good or bad, but somewhere in between. This post covers a selection of words and phrases you can use in these cases. Continue reading “It’ll have to do: talking about things that aren’t very good or very bad” →