half-hearted

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And earlier this month United defender Noussair Mazraoui was recorded comically scribbling half-hearted signatures on a set of shirts given to him by a hunter who approached him at his car window after training.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

So by those standards, what the California Highway Patrol discovered when they pulled over a driver in the carpool lane in West Covina recently would be half-hearted.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

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

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