so-soish in English

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  "etymology_text": "so-so + -ish",
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          "ref": "1840, William Laxton, The Civil engineer and architect's journal: Volume 3, page 188",
          "text": "[…] being one of very great merit and beauty, which, to say the truth, is more than we dare affirm of any of those we here notice, for they strike us as being of a very so-soish character.",
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        "Thoroughly unimpressive; mediocre."
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        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "so-soish"
}

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        "Thoroughly unimpressive; mediocre."
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"so-soish" meaning in English

Adjective