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half-baked

How to use half-baked in a sentence

Or are all you Mentorians so gutless that you believe any half-baked folk tale the Lhari pass off on you?

THE COLORS OF SPACEMARION ZIMMER BRADLEY

It is true that she regarded her as a half-baked natural, but she would never let anyone but herself say so.

Not in all his career had he ever been known to discuss in print his theories, or deductions, or half-baked conclusion.

This is characteristic of an excess in education; of the half baked mind overtrained.

He believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, but which is peculiarly attractive to a half-baked mind.

HOWARDS ENDE. M. FORSTER

I ran off with my half-baked dough, and joined my comrades, just as they were getting under arms.

There are enough half-baked singers in the world now who are striving to become professionals.

Then out on the piazza we swung our fly-brushes, beat off the sellers of things, and tried to assimilate our half-baked knowledge.

THE SHIP DWELLERSALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

Pour into the pie half a cupful of melted butter, the juice of a lemon, and a glass of sherry, when rather more than half baked.

A table was nowhere laid for a distinct meal, but they snatched the bread out of the fire, half-baked, and ate it very hastily.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985