half-baked

Example Sentences

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Critics were given seven episodes to preview out of the first season’s nine installments, enough to confirm that any emerging theories about its meaning can only be half-baked.

From Salon

The character study turns out to be half-baked as Meier turns her attention to the group dynamics that might have produced Margaret’s instability.

From New York Times

It’s funny, demented and hyperviolent, in a goofy, half-baked way that might be best appreciated in an altered state.

From Washington Post

"The main thing is, we just need proper funding to make sure that whatever we do out of London isn't a half-baked version of the ENO."

From BBC

Skeptics have long dismissed the Greater Idaho movement as half-baked, but the plan to split Oregon’s rural eastern counties from Portland and fold them into the famous-potatoes state is only picking up steam.

From Washington Times