Some have speaking and writing skills that are barely acceptable.

The audio quality ranges from barely acceptable to surprisingly good.

As a human he was barely acceptable, and his sanity hung by a thread.

That process is considered barely acceptable for human vaccine today.

Fuel economy was barely acceptable for run-about driving but poor at higher speed.

A landlord's business problems often hurt tenants already living in barely acceptable conditions.

We now ask most office workers to prepare their own documents, and mere typing is barely acceptable.

The catalogue, hastily done and without an overview, is barely acceptable.

The Steward gave him a bow calculated to the inch to be barely acceptable and led the way.

They lived in barely acceptable living conditions, on an extremely scarce income.