Passably is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PASSABLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• Tolerably; moderately.
ADVERB:
• PASSABLE, fairly good or acceptable
• in a way that is just good enough; reasonably
• to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
• fairly
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• capable of being passed, crossed, or traveled on; capable of being freely circulated

Words related to PASSABLY

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How to use PASSABLY in a sentence

• Sir, I have a daughter, who is considered passably good-looking by certain appreciative individuals.
• Some of the melons weighed as much as five or six ounces, and were passably good eating, although rather bitter.
• XXIX In the course of the next eight years Newmark and Orde floated high on that flood of apparent prosperity that attends a business well conceived and passably well managed.
• He went down to the coast in a carriage containing seventeen other men, but he got a fat sleepy youth to sit on, and was passably comfortable.
• We saw a splendid carriage and four, with a troop of soldiers in red tramping after it, and a passably pretty flag flying over them.
• A mechanical man can play a part in them not very well, but passably well.
• Nevertheless, he had a good carriage and a passably intelligent face, and he was rather handsome.
• The important thing was to find a hotel in which one could live passably.
• A woman who was plump, or buxom, or chubby might be classed as passably attractive, but only the fat women were irresistible.
• And I hold, with Sydney Smith, and with that keen practical philosopher, Becky Sharpe, that happiness and success tend very greatly to make people passably good.
• The speech at New York, being within my calculation before I started, went off passably well and gave me no trouble whatever.
• Education has accomplished this function, I think, passably well with respect to the more obvious sources of superstition.
• Deep down in our hearts we know that we have a useful work to do, and we know that we are doing it passably well.
• For Kay represented highly civilized, passably educated, keen-minded youth.
• A clever, passably good-looking elderly man could make himself peculiarly attractive to young women and women in the thirties.
• However, the pair seemed, in spite of their apparent poverty, to be passably merry.
• For his sake as well as my own I did want to acquit myself passably.
• I had a strong hackney under me, a bright clear sky overhead, and a companion who, if not brilliantly amusing, was very passably intelligent.
• He was agreeably disappointed to find that the keynote was distinctly well-mannered, passably urban, undeniably conventional.
• But being a man of a certain intelligence, passably honest, and reasonably painstaking, probably he produced reviews sufficiently useful and just to answer their purpose.
• From the distance of the gallery she looked quite passably youthful, and beyond question she had a dominating presence in her resplendent costume.
• He was a younger man than the other, of medium height, and passably well dressed in a quiet lounge suit, green Alpine hat and brown shoes.
• One must come into close contact with him to find him different from any other passably attractive, intelligent man of the open.
• The garden, planted for utility, was passably well kept.
• By breaking out the shallow snow, the ground was made passably available to the feeding herd, which followed the boys as sheep follow a shepherd.
• They had found a cave in which they had been passably comfortable.
• The road from Guayama is also said to be a passably good one.
• I was still young, my dear Sir, and passably good looking.
• Poor child! I honestly did my best to love her, so far as I knew how, and mayhap we could have rubbed on through life passably well as things go.
• Many of them have joined in the movement, with the hope of doing better, who were doing passably well at home.
• But, bad for idle schoolboys, it did so happen that they were passably good for him.
• Hallet was a polite sociable man, loving his ease passably well, and desirous of living in these wild countries, as people do in civilized lands.
• Nolin, with his family, consisting of three half-breed boys and as many girls, one of whom was passably pretty.
• Sir James tells me that thou art passably ripe in skill.
• And there are passably good roads through the woods where we go motoring.

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