Poorish

Then I find myself at the old-new cathedral, begun about a century ago, and finished about fifty years since -- a 'poorish' heartless edifice in the bald Italian manner, and quite unsuited to these old Flemish cities. ❋ Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald (1879)

I do genuinely believe there have been some poorish decisions that, in my opinion, wouldn't necessarily have hit other clubs, Gill said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

From a poorish location in the first cut – as Augusta National calls its carefully manicured light rough – beside the fairway on the par-five 2nd, he hit a fine shot with his rescue club and took two putts from 40 feet to recover the earlier loss. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the end it was judged a "poorish liquefaction", Lewis noted, but at least the transformation had eventually taken place. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He will be remembered for little more than handing over huge swathes of power to the EU without the whole-hearted consent of the British people, presiding over a poorish collection of Tory MPs of whom a fair few proved to be personally flawed and for his hypocritical affair with, of all people, the appalling Edwina Currie. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"This was a poorish neighborhood where people went about their daily lives, and now it's hip and groovy with pubs and spas and gyms," says Wendy Melechen, who has owned The Printer since 1986. ❋ J. Freedom Du Lac Washington Post Staff Writer (2010)

All you have to do is get a reasonably well paid job abroad in a poorish country and live the ex-pat lifestyle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Why, one day a woman, poorish looking, came in between the hatch, slapped down a penny, and wanted to go on without the change! ❋ Unknown (2007)

If you are young and poorish, take this as a cautionary tale: Find a way to get to these events and be ebullient and mildly rude and totally delighted. ❋ Mirtika (2006)

All of these forms of communication--with their poorish production value and low circulation also put original thoughts and ideas out there. ❋ Adam Tierney-Eliot (2006)

The bread-and-butter were good enough, but the ale poorish. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But, bless his soul! did not most large families include at least one poorish specimen? — he had got thus far, by the time he came to wind up his watch for the night. ❋ Unknown (2003)

All in all it had developed into a poorish Saturday morning. ❋ Francis, Dick (1993)

Number 33, when he eventually found it neatly sandwiched between 37 and 45, was in a poorish state of repair, but no worse than most of the rest. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 (1987)

From the small pimple on the side of his nose to the poorish cut of his dressing gown, there was no aspect of Arthur Dent which wasn't lambasted and vilified by the sculptor. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 (1982)