half-assed
Example Sentences
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"My life is not meant to be lived in misery and half-assed," wrote Aiava, who said 2026 would be her last year on tour.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
Reichardt is laying bare a privileged man’s half-assed delinquency, especially with O’Connor so hypnotic at conveying self-absorbed cluelessness with his woeful eyes, posture and movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Snap’s Spectacles are truly horrid, like something you’d wear as part of a half-assed Andy Warhol costume on Halloween.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2024
Which is why it’s great that Stack Overflow and Drop haven’t half-assed The Key, despite its silly novelty status.
From The Verge ● Nov. 3, 2021
Who are these nutcases who would volunteer for an artificially daunting situation in order to entertain millions of strangers with their half-assed efforts to survive?
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
