Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Vulgar Slang Not well planned or executed.
- adj. Vulgar Slang Incompetent.
Wiktionary
- adj. poorly or incompetently done
Examples
“Much like her life and political career, OSarah bin Palin prepares half-assed and at the last minute.”
“Though, I would recommend you put more effort in than you did in this half-assed logical fallacy you call an argument.”
“If I don't strike gold there, maybe one of the television stations will air it as their half-assed tribute.”
“I'll never, ever again be able to grin and bear lousy rping, ooc nonsense, and half-assed worldbuilding in Second Life.”
“In part, I blame the Weinstein Company's half-assed release of the film.”
“Adobe and its codec licensors have done a half-assed job of optimizing their code.”
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“I was cruising with a pair of calipers and tagging the trees and keeping a half-assed inventory.”
“We just get half-assed measures that barely touch on a symptom or two, ignoring underlying causes.”
“Essentially, they came up with a half-assed bill without any direct communication to the public about why it was necessary or about what its specific goals were (infrastructure? getting green? purely jobs?).”
“Okay, Dubai is an emirate within a half-assed country.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘half-assed’.
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hyphenated halfs
are a lot of these halfs half-thought-out?
half-cocked, half-breed, half-bath, half-assed, half-a-buck, half-baked, half-dead, half-asleep, half-back, half-clothed, half-done, half-dozen and 74 more...
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by half
half as good as most lists
halfheimers, half time, halfhearted, half a mind to, half nelson, half caf, half and half, half-pint, half-cocked, half-wit, half again, half-crazed and 19 more...
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ShadowCastingOblivion's Words
poltroon, half-assed, italic, oblivion, mystification, juxtaposition, shadow, casting, dynamic, figurative, paradoxical, prosaic and 1 more...
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john Lame, incomplete, poorly done. The opposite of full-assed. Sep 17, 2007