Sorry, no online dictionaries contain the exact phrase when something is bad but not awful.

Reverse dictionary results:
1. mediocre
 2. subpar
3. inadequate
4. unsatisfactory
5. average
6. impulse buying
7. impulse purchase
8. impulse buy
9. subobsolete
10. incumbently
 11. latitude
12. volitionally
13. working
14. accidentality
15. amiss
16. arbitrary
17. disproportionate
18. impulsive
19. inside out
20. necessitie
 21. necessitude
22. precarity
23. resisting
24. accidentalness
25. adequately
26. alone
27. closeness
28. comme il faut
29. fortuity
30. gut reaction
 31. ill-timed
32. imperfect
33. inconsequentiality
34. inequity
35. inexact
36. ins and outs
37. inwit
38. niente
39. nihility
40. nullity

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