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Definition of half-hearted in English: half-heartedadjectiveˌhɑːfˈhɑːtɪd Without enthusiasm or energy. Example sentencesExamples - The Scotland striker's half-hearted effort was turned round for a corner by Wylie's legs.
- ‘The Benton bout was a half-hearted attempt on my part to go out on a high,’ he says.
- My half-hearted attempt to change bank has even left me with a spare bank card, which is going to be bloody handy.
- Recently I have made half-hearted attempts to discover what became of Norman Lodge.
- I make a half-hearted attempt to clean my room but end up surfing the internet aimlessly.
- The police sometimes have a half-hearted approach to enforcing the law.
- Television shows that he did so albeit in a half-hearted way.
- Unfortunately, late night shopping has been half-hearted at best.
- Complaints to the ministry have only resulted in half-hearted attempts to solve the problem.
- After a half-hearted effort at saving my pocket money, I quickly emptied my account.
- The half-hearted attempt to clean up with dustpan and brush did little more than reposition them.
- There was never a moment of practice that was half-hearted, and he poured every ounce of effort into every performance.
- It was a half-hearted attempt to draw level and one which referee Colin Hardie rightfully ignored.
- We attempted a team cheer, but the effort was half-hearted and just embarrassing.
- The attempt by the bureaucrats to save the environment is half-hearted.
- She attempted a half-hearted smile at the baby, who immediately burst into tears.
- Both of these are half-hearted attempts to solve the mother of all chicken and egg problems.
- He was in a bad way, so very weak, only the occasional half-hearted flap of his wings.
- A half-hearted attempt has been made to plant saplings along the road dividers.
- The rebels reached the gates through the half-hearted attempts of the enemy to keep them at bay with their arrows.
Synonyms unenthusiastic, lukewarm, cool, apathetic, perfunctory, cursory, superficial, desultory, feeble, faint, weak, tepid indifferent, unconcerned, listless, lacklustre, dispassionate, uninterested, unemotional, languid, passive rare Laodicean
Derivatives noun But its actual policy seems to have been a sort of calculated half-heartedness. Example sentencesExamples - He blamed the failures of the ‘yes’ campaign on the half-heartedness of France's leaders.
- And if a country does embark on war, timidity and half-heartedness and second-guessing are always the source of more death and misery than decisiveness and ruthlessness and forcing things to a conclusion.
- In neglecting small things, the King exposed half-heartedness, in neglecting small things it resulted in lost opportunity.
- Any faint hint of half-heartedness, any wavering, would turn this into a ridiculous farce, but fully played, it is real satire.
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