Fair
Fair adjective - Of average to below average quality.
Usage example: for what they charged us, the painters should have done better than a fair job of painting the house
Ordinary is a synonym for fair in quality topic. In some cases you can use "Ordinary" instead an adjective "Fair", when it comes to topics like mediocre.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- The Good King: Artos is an "engineer king" who restores neglected technology, lives and works beside ordinary people, and tries to be fair to his kids.
Source: Literature / The Lion Hunters -
To be fair, her incarnations from alternate realities in the anime and the movie demonstrated well enough that she's more than capable of handling herself as an ordinary magical girl.
Source: Video Game / Grief Syndrome - These, because of their conditioning and the sheer number of gods on the Discworld, now recognize several thousand holy symbols, a fair number of which look amazingly like ordinary, everyday objects.
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