The phrase "a fairly bad" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is moderately or somewhat poor in quality or performance.
Example: "The movie received a fairly bad review from critics, highlighting its weak plot and lackluster performances."
Alternatives: "somewhat poor" or "rather disappointing".
"I have a fairly bad back," he admits.
We do a fairly bad job of that a lot of the time.
Forty years ago there was a fairly bad movie called "John and Mary".
The refugees, mostly women and children, were in a "fairly bad shape," he said.
Compared with the 3,000 bike-an-hour capacity of the cycle lane, it seems like a fairly bad deal.
Blackstone has had a fairly bad time of late, in keeping with the rest of the financial world.
His work is often great, sometimes O.K., and once in a while fairly bad, but it always operates at a high level of formal and philosophical intelligence.
But Mr. Mounk and Mr. Foa found strong signs of deconsolidation during that period: As early as 2005, nearly 16percentt of Poles said they believed democracy was a "bad" or "fairly bad" way of running the country.
When I'm not working with marketing people, I work mostly with engineers, and this is a generalization, but they have fairly bad handwriting.
39 Wider outcomes were measured by the RA Quality-of-Life scale (0 30), 40 Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (0 21), 41 Arthritis Helplessness Index (5 30), 42 RA Self-Efficacy scale (RASE, 28 140) 43 and a sleep quality question (very good, fairly good, fairly bad, very bad), 44 recoded as a binary variable as numbers were insufficient for analysis.
This year started out fairly bad: there was a $5 cover at the door, Mama's was hot, the poutine used shredded cheese instead of curds, and there appeared to be a ton of Quebs there wearing fleur de lys shirts.
