not bad
Also, not half bad; not so or too bad; not too shabby. Fairly good, as in Not bad, said the conductor, but we need to play the scherzo again, or The movie wasn't half bad, but Jerry wanted to go home, or Our garden's not too bad this year, or How are things going?—Not too shabby. All of the terms involving bad, which imply that something is less bad than it might be, date from the mid-1700s. The last variant, using shabby in the sense of “inferior,” is slang of the late 1900s.
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How to use not bad in a sentence
Little George medicates memories of his Iraq mistake by painting not-bad pictures.
Don’t Run for President, Hillary. Become a ‘Post-President’ Instead | Tina Brown | May 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNicaragua has a not-bad 7.4 percent unemployment rate, which is a good start.
There are not-bad verses of his; he wrote odes, and also seems to have put a dwn together.
The Bbur-nma in English | Babur, Emperor of HindustanAlmond timed her on the level bit at Achres, and it was at the rate of over forty-five miles an hour-not bad for a touring car.
The Lightning Conductor | C. N. Williamson
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