half-hearted

Example Sentences

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There’s Mrs. Duggan’s sitting room, for example, with its “faint, high whistling of the gas fire”; and “the weary clatter of half-hearted washing-up” in a depressing cafe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

And these memos lay bare the extent to which the work product underpinning these decisions is often half-hearted and vibes-based; animated more by grievance and hurt feelings than neutral legal rules.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026

A draft version of the report circulated among stakeholders in late October included a half-hearted endorsement of a change to the state building code.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

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

Then gradually, people got bored and the pranks became more half-hearted, until one day it struck me there hadn’t been any for over a week.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro