adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The test produces tolerably accurate results.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beveridge's legacy endures because the welfare state works tolerably well and is immensely popular.
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But if he could not kill them outright, he could put them in the way of tolerably certain death.
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Diane hadn't been a stunner, but she'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body.
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Moreover, club directors were tolerably insulated from outside pressure.
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They had increasing difficulty in providing even tolerably competent candidates for the array of provincial posts reserved for them.
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They were tolerably happy together, as marriages seem to go, a happiness achieved partly by agreeing to differ.
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Under instructions from Mission Control, he had jury-rigged several emergency systems, which were working tolerably well.
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You write a very pretty hand and spell tolerably too.