Sentence examples for merely competent from inspiring English sources

More instructive is that only twice this season might it be posited that United played well: against Swansea, in the opening game – even that punctuated by moments rather than replete with cohesion – and against a Bayer Leverkusen team that barely competed, yet, with merely competent goalkeeping, might have sneaked a draw.

Jobs was a merely competent technician.

For whatever reason, most of the portrayals were merely competent.

The Gore team worries that Mr. Bush will get excessive credit for a merely competent performance.

It's that redundant "within existing arrangements", you might think, that distinguishes a truly gifted official simplifier from the merely competent.

Ms. Arbus's exemplary work would have far less impact if her cast were inadequate or merely competent.

The mitral valve was merely mildly degenerative but competent and without evidence of endocarditis.

It's difficult not to notice, when standing in front of Ms. Brown's paintings, that she is merely a competent painter rather than a great one.

Unfortunately the Blue Heron production, directed by Roger Danforth, is merely a competent rendition of a work that has suddenly been rendered untimely.

Erlewine stated that where Boyz II Men have first-rate professional songwriters and producers, Men of Vizion merely have "competent hacks", which means that "no matter how hard the group tries, they can't make any of these songs memorable".

Other possibility is that hSC are merely not competent to receive RIBE signals, or, alternatively, hSC are not producing RIBE signals.