half-hearted
Example Sentences
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Ministers favour setting up more specialist provision in mainstream schools, but MPs have warned that there cannot be a half-hearted approach to giving schools and councils what they need.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025
In a two-star review, the Telegraph's Robbie Collin called it a "nefariously lazy" adaptation that is little more than a "half-hearted parody of a whodunnit".
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2025
This half-hearted interest in naturalism hurts more than helps.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025
Instead, mitigation was uneven and half-hearted, stoking frustration without effectively preventing spread of the disease, and paving the way for the backlash that followed.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2025
Unfortunately, these two objectives were directly at odds with each other, and Galileo’s success at the second undermined his rather half-hearted efforts at the first.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
