half-assed

Example Sentences

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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

She adds, “I wouldn’t be able to do this show half-assed.”

From Los Angeles Times

Snap’s Spectacles are truly horrid, like something you’d wear as part of a half-assed Andy Warhol costume on Halloween.

From Slate

"Unfortunately, my body is telling me that I'm just not ready yet and I am much too proud to have the first show that I do in nearly five years be half-assed," he wrote in a statement.

From BBC

Like any great short story, Scholz’s shows us the truth: Half-assed overmen rule the clever beasts.

From Slate