Sentence examples for Fairly smart from inspiring English sources

"fairly smart" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to describe something that has some intelligence or mental skill, but not a great deal. For example, "He is a fairly smart student, but he needs to work on his writing skills."

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On the plus side, though, they were comfy, fairly smart and under £40.

We're going to have to be fairly smart about the way we play and we have a few things that we're going to try to implement".

I like to think that I'm a fairly smart guy, but what has given me and others an advantage in this crisis is having a better model.

Loess regression is a fairly "smart" method, and even a conservative application of it could still potentially perceive a shift in the polls in the summer.

To be a serious presidential contender, after all, you have to be a fairly smart guy — and nobody has accused either Mr. Romney or Mr. Giuliani of being stupid.

There have been other points in the election cycle when the polls appeared to show a shift in the race but without much news to drive it; the model has been fairly "smart" about avoiding being taken by these false alarms.

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The forecast model is pretty "smart" about distinguishing random movements in the polls from real ones, and so can be fairly conservative in interpreting the data.

"He was fairly serious," Smart told me.

My son was no stranger to India and fairly street smart, having navigated a trip to India during his high school years, teaching soccer to kids in a slum in Mumbai.

Yet, the tension is there, particularly among white voters who are afraid to admit that they are not voting for the black dude this round to white voters who just feel comfortable voting for a fairly healthy, smart and seemingly capable white guy (the one who looks like them).

Actually, my technical support guy was a fairly reasonable sort–smart, crisp, an Indian accent basically everything you want when you have a computer problem.

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