half-assed

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  • I made myself a fried-egg sandwich for lunch, changed my jeans, brushed my hair into a half-assed ponytail, and plastered a ton of concealer over my pimple. —  Seven Up
  • We discussed a lot of really heavy intellectual kind of stuff like uhh and that's where the trip was really all "She added hastily," I mean there was this other kind of half-assed drug trip, true, but that was ... —  Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin
  • It seems to me that you did a half-assed job, Sasha, and you so picked the wrong person to screw over. —  Run For The Money
  • When he was baffled, she dealt out the 9 of diamonds, the ace of diamonds, 7 of diamonds, and 6 of diamonds. —  Phaze Doubt
  • He did not know the answer. —  Sharpe's Enemy
 

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