half-baked

Sometimes, there are half-baked attempts to claim they want men to control themselves, but that's more a P.R. move than a sincere effort.

“We’re not even in the right ballpark,” said Quan, who previously told the county supervisors that he thought the ethics reforms in Measure G were “half-baked.”

One by one, four black men find themselves inexplicably transported to a world that resembles some half-baked new video game that hasn’t yet worked out all the kinks.

What is about to happen will very likely be even more damaging, as we move from fragmentary news reporting into the realm of speculation, name-calling, finger-pointing, conspiracy theory and half-baked political forecasting.

Others agree: it has been called "half-baked" and a device that "fails at almost everything" by reviewers.