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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • My office is littered with good, half-read books I am almost sure I will never finish.

    Giving Up Roger Sutton 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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