half-done

I must choose surer hands—the work must not be half-done, as heretofore.

You have half-done it, but only half, because you have not understood.

We have heaps of business to do in London—heaps—and the book is only half-done.

Irma shuffled over on her crooked high heels and returned with the half-done pajamas.

Nothing ever showed the wisdom of the proverb about half-done work, children and fools, better; and, alas!

The haying on the island was about half-done; there was a short intermission in the work now, but it was to begin again very soon.

They'll have something more substantial for supper, I thought, beginning to crust the top of a black-looking, half-done biscuit.

And is there any sign to-day of full justice ever being done or half-done?

It is better to do a small amount well than to leave much work in a half-done condition.

He had heard that the managers had entered into negotiations with a new engineer, and he wished the man to find no half-done work.