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- adjective UK Alternative spelling of
half-assed .
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Examples
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You don't need dozens of half-arsed compilations on cheap labels, you need it done properly.
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So what if you get it wrong from time to time if you're big enough to put your hands up to it, it endears you to your readers far more than some of the half-arsed apologies you read elsewhere.
So I made a mistake ... but it could be worse Norfolk Blogger 2009
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You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy? Hal Duncan 2009
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Any half-arsed screenwriter can produce a so-called scene, but what happens is – surely?
Nemesis by Philip Roth Edward Docx 2010
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Instead what they did was this half-arsed not quite out and not quite in.
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It's a half-arsed argument by analogy that nods in the direction of an appeal to authority.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Seven months later the language's presence on the Commission's website had progressed from being non-existent to being half-arsed.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Seven months later the language's presence on the Commission's website had progressed from being non-existent to being half-arsed.
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You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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I told her a half-arsed lie about inflicting the wound on myself while thinking of her.
Potsdamer Strasse Jasoni 2011
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