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Definition of half-arse in English: half-arse(US half-ass) verb [with object]informal Do (something) with little effort or care. developers should stop half-arsing things and make good games! Example sentencesExamples - Keep in mind that they are notorious for half-arsing things and doing everything as inefficiently and ineffectively as possible.
- No matter what they were asked, The Beatles never half-assed it.
- Take a tip from famed poet Charles Bukowski and stop half-arsing your way through those new years resolutions.
- Based on his previous behaviour, I'd say he has it in him to dig his heels in and half-arse it until the club becomes fed up and wants him gone.
- When you hit the gym hard, you don't want to half ass it!
- Don't half ass it, guys - expect to be repaid in playoff revenue.
- He's too passionate and willful to half-ass anything in the footballing world.
- If you are going to half ass the indycar articles, just don't write them.
- I would hate to see them half-ass something like this.
- We have a tendency to half-ass everything and we wonder why nothing works 100 %.
adjective informal Done with little effort or care. they did a half-arse job on the reporting Example sentencesExamples - Giving me that half-ass sales pitch won't work.
- There is no way we should come up with half-arse theories about what is going on.
- We have watched him put in a half-ass effort in Nashville for years.
- Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down.
- The half-ass apology immediately afterward was better than the joke.
- To me, that's a half-ass job that provides little value, and gives consultants a bad name.
- He throws an interception and makes a half-arse attempt at a tackle.
- When people do that half-arse thing of saying "I don't want to talk about it", it really annoys me.
- This firmware is an example of a half-ass attempt at rectifying some of their errors.
- That's so half-ass, it's almost funny.
Definition of half-ass in US English: half-ass(British half-arse) verb [with object]informal Do (something) with little effort or care. they half-assed the redesign you could just half-ass it Example sentencesExamples - Don't half ass it, guys - expect to be repaid in playoff revenue.
- If you are going to half ass the indycar articles, just don't write them.
- Keep in mind that they are notorious for half-arsing things and doing everything as inefficiently and ineffectively as possible.
- Based on his previous behaviour, I'd say he has it in him to dig his heels in and half-arse it until the club becomes fed up and wants him gone.
- I would hate to see them half-ass something like this.
- We have a tendency to half-ass everything and we wonder why nothing works 100 %.
- No matter what they were asked, The Beatles never half-assed it.
- Take a tip from famed poet Charles Bukowski and stop half-arsing your way through those new years resolutions.
- When you hit the gym hard, you don't want to half ass it!
- He's too passionate and willful to half-ass anything in the footballing world.
adjective informal Done with little effort or care. Example sentencesExamples - That's so half-ass, it's almost funny.
- There is no way we should come up with half-arse theories about what is going on.
- We have watched him put in a half-ass effort in Nashville for years.
- To me, that's a half-ass job that provides little value, and gives consultants a bad name.
- He throws an interception and makes a half-arse attempt at a tackle.
- When people do that half-arse thing of saying "I don't want to talk about it", it really annoys me.
- This firmware is an example of a half-ass attempt at rectifying some of their errors.
- Giving me that half-ass sales pitch won't work.
- Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down.
- The half-ass apology immediately afterward was better than the joke.
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