Sentence examples similar to deficient at best from inspiring English sources

So it looks like pleasure and utility friendships are at best deficient modes of friendship; by contrast, virtue friendships, because they are motivated by the excellences of your friend's character, are genuine, non-deficient friendships.

Thus an attitude that is not formed in this way is either not a genuine belief at all, or at best a deficient instance of it (see Adler 2002; Textor 2004).

The development of vegetation on EGRs has been conjecture at best due to issues such as accessibility and deficient scientific method.

At best.

At best periodically.

tepid at best.

A curiosity at best.

Silver at best.

At best, nothing.

At best, they pitied him.

At best, the watchdogs bark.