18 examples of so-so in sentences
"Look here," he went on gently, "are you a friend of mine?" "Oh, so-so," growled the Boy.
Her voice is so-so, but her school is simply infamous.
Suppose that my career has not been very, well, resplendent; that my army record is only so-so; that I've devoted myself to him with remarkable assiduity, as in fact I have; that I might be called, quite plausibly, an adventurer.
The remainder is so-so.
"Oh, just so-so," Fred answered, trying to make the stove take more wood than it was ever intended to take.
Dr. Taylor read the service but so-so.'
Father is certainly one of the handsomest elderly men of my acquaintanceand the major is so-so-ish
As we found ourselves in a tippling humor, we drank hard, and returned to our employers in a pretty pickle; that is to say, so-so in the upper story.
indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average &c 29; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable^, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.
Oh, they're getting on so-so; thank God, sir!
"So-so," returned the doctor.
And so-so it goes on....
How did you make out?" "Oh, so-so."
"Wasn't that a bad time to leave Wall Street?" "Well, so-so.
Say, how was the war?" "Oh, so-so," answered the returned private.
i' up, Yet sell i' fe so-so tup.
Miss Cormorant and all the Cormorant family are wanting me to hurry up with this history, and just so surely as I should skip over any part of the tale, or slight my background, or show any eagerness, that other family, the Criticsthe recording angels of literaturetake down their pens, and with a sad face joyfully write: "This book is, so-so, but bears evident marks of hurry in its execution.
The singing is so-so, and the tenor especially is gifted with limbs rather than with voice or ear.