half-baked
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Meta’s Quest headsets were still clunky, and the software looked half-baked.
From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026
We usually die half-baked, so he finishes the cooking, turning up the heat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
The weirdest thing about Oldham’s terrible opinions is that their half-baked inanity does not seem to reflect his true intellect.
From Slate • Jul. 10, 2025
Arriving in Los Angeles to pitch the half-baked reality show, she takes the opportunity to lobby “Death and Taxidermy”’s showrunner, unsuccessfully, to rethink the cannibalism and dragons now written into it.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2025
She thought he had poor code-breaking skills, and he often sent half-baked “flubdedubs and gadgets” to her Coast Guard unit, wasting everyone’s time.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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