Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A superficial opinion.

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Examples

  • I half-thought that it was for actually changing the date so you could see what happens in March 2010 for it, but it's just for changing the appearance of the date, isn't it? sylvane

    Windows 7 RC Will Start Nagging, Auto-Rebooting In March 2010 | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • I don't think it's so much a matter of "delaying" reform, as Obama puts it, as it is a matter of preventing a half-cooked and half-thought out bill from being rammed through into law.

    Obama challenges reform detractors to explain themselves 2009

  • There was something worse on the wind, though it was so faint that she half-thought she imagined it.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • "In one minute more I'll open these gates and come out and chase you with my whip, " threatened the man - and he looked so terribly fierce that Fatty half-thought he might be as good as his word.

    Separate Douglas Light 2010

  • What made me sad in those cases were the number of other people who praised their writing - people who had read the original works, who had seen what damn good writing looks like, and who yet did not seem to be able to distinguish between the real thing and a half-assed, half-thought cloudy approximation of the real thing, seen through a pair of binoculars made from jello and rocks.

    Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010

  • I carry a Rhodia notebook everywhere, but it seems to collect random phone numbers and half-thought sentences more than anything else.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Mercedes 2009

  • I carry a Rhodia notebook everywhere, but it seems to collect random phone numbers and half-thought sentences more than anything else.

    Writer's Block and Margaret's Eggplant Mercedes 2009

  • I can't say much more about this because, as I said, it is still only a half-thought.

    Texas Faith: Greed, gluttony and Wall Street's collapse | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • I needed Peter Oborne in the Telegraph to bring to the front of my mind something I half-thought as soon as I first heard about it.

    General BBC-related comment thread.. 2009

  • For a moment she half-thought she glimpsed a flicker of movement at one of the windows, a flash of whiteness that could have been a face, or a hand drawing back a heavy drape

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

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