It was just barely habitable, with the oxygen level merely adequate.

How does that look compared with actually getting your hands dirty while working in merely adequate quarters and being paid the "industry standard"?

The food, he emphasized, has been merely adequate.

I, as a historian, am merely adequate, certainly not outstanding.

For want of a control group the study is "merely adequate" as social science, Carol Tavris said here last year.

After my merely adequate reading, she inquired, "May I ask how old you are?"

Browning described it as "one of those games that starts out way too ambitious, and ends up merely adequate."

His speech, unlike that of the merely adequate supporting cast, feels lived rather than learned.

While those specifications seem impressive compared with other computers, they are merely adequate for video production work.

She had become not merely adequate but expert at both specialties and was well on her way to becoming a middling-fair pilot.