Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without enthusiasm or eagerness; indifferently.
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- adverb In a
half-hearted manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without enthusiasm; in a half-hearted manner
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Examples
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Five Reasons The Government Won't Kill Your GrandmaI have long felt that the government has had an agenda to keep people addicted to pills and search for cures to diseases like cancer and diabetes only half-heartedly, but openly discussing the euthanasia of the elderly in our nation?
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Five Reasons The Government Won't Kill Your GrandmaI have long felt that the government has had an agenda to keep people addicted to pills and search for cures to diseases like cancer and diabetes only half-heartedly, but openly discussing the euthanasia of the elderly in our nation?
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What would help is a Republican who says: Mr. Obama's failure in Libya isn't that he intervened to stop mass murder; it's that he's intervened so half-heartedly.
A Republican Foreign Policy Bret Stephens 2011
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The Editor will stand around his house's booth for 10 or 15 minutes to show that he's pitching in, perhaps half-heartedly waving a couple of catalogues at passersby.
Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America Peter Ginna 2011
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In other stores the Christmas decorations are coming down and the carols have stopped playing and the clerks, if they can muster any left over holiday cheer, are half-heartedly wishing customers a happy New Year.
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“Glad I could help out, Nana,” I say, half-heartedly.
Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011
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You can't just go half-heartedly at something like this.
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You can't just go half-heartedly at something like this.
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They refused to endorse the initial protests until the last minute and then only half-heartedly.
Stephen Zunes: Credit the Egyptian People for the Egyptian Revolution Stephen Zunes 2011
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The Editor will stand around his house's booth for 10 or 15 minutes to show that he's pitching in, perhaps half-heartedly waving a couple of catalogues at passersby.
Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America Peter Ginna 2011
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