Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Superficially informed by reading.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow.
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Examples
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I wondered if she had read the notes from Mr. Soper; they sat open, five of them, like pages of a half-read newspaper.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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I wondered if she had read the notes from Mr. Soper; they sat open, five of them, like pages of a half-read newspaper.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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I wondered if she had read the notes from Mr. Soper; they sat open, five of them, like pages of a half-read newspaper.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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I wondered if she had read the notes from Mr. Soper; they sat open, five of them, like pages of a half-read newspaper.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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My office is littered with good, half-read books I am almost sure I will never finish.
Giving Up Roger Sutton 2009
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But convoluted symbolism and half-read theology is insufferably Lucasian, after all.
Up, George Lucas, the spirit of adventure, and the myth of the fallen angel 2009
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I wondered if she had read the notes from Mr. Soper; they sat open, five of them, like pages of a half-read newspaper.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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Either way, said the prolific memoirist, the judges did not want books that "stay on the shelf, half-read".
The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett 2011
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The thing is I do not have much time for reading which is why my home is full of half-read and barely started books.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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All right, another half-read article that's not quite what I thought it was.
Apollo's Daughter :: August 27th, 2008 apollosdtr 2008
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