The phrase "a moderately amusing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is somewhat funny or entertaining, but not overwhelmingly so.
Example: "The movie was a moderately amusing experience, providing a few laughs but not much more."
Alternatives: "somewhat funny" or "fairly entertaining".
This may be because voters haven't gotten used to taking Mr Huckabee seriously or remembering his name; a month ago he was considered a moderately amusing joke.
There is a moderately amusing bit involving an infestation of flies, and the brief appearance of that mantis at least wakes you up.
From the same production team as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, this is a moderately amusing film in conventional sitcom fashion, and is a form of flattire, the genre in which flattery poses as satire.
Writes Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter: "After proving himself a crack shot on his first pranky western, the animated Rango, Gore Verbinski appears not to have had enough ammo left over to score as well with The Lone Ranger, a moderately amusing but very uneven revisionist adventure with franchise and theme-park intentions written all over it.
There's not much new to be wrung out of the wedding-catastrophe plotline, but if you're the kind who is always up for a calamity-filled trip down the aisle, "Breakup at a Wedding" is a moderately amusing application of the formula.
Sony's girl-powered "Ghostbusters" was a moderately amusing, low-energy diversion that you couldn't help but root for, if only to push back against the fanboys who spent months trashing the movie sight unseen, and who later spearheaded an astonishingly vicious, still-ongoing harassment campaign against one of the movie's stars, Leslie Jones.
"Liv and Maddie" is a gentle, moderately amusing comedy that arrives Sunday on the Disney Channel, and it's a good one for grandparents to watch with their grandchildren.
Likewise babies, though it's still perplexing that a merely moderately amusing family moment is the most watched YouTube video of all time.
Well, "The Big Tease," a campy, moderately amusing new comedy, will take you behind the scenes at this ultraexclusive event in which the world's leading hair stylists battle tooth and nail, comb and curler, for the Platinum Scissors Award, a priceless pair of gleaming shears once possessed by Czar Nicholas II.
At best, it's a blackout bit.In the second, Miss Sommer is a student of eugenics bouncing studiously around Rome looking for the perfect male specimen to be the father of her child, and what she finally settles for is her ardent chauffeur (Piero Focaccia), an Italian Jerry Lewis.The third is moderately amusing, primarily because it is a straight lampoon of deep-breathing, kitchen-sink drama.
The transgendered comic Ian Harvie, looking like a teenage boy from a wholesome 1950s television series, does a trim 10 minutes of moderately amusing stand-up.
