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half-arsed

adjective

  1. slang,  incompetent; inept; badly organized

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"I just can't imagine Red Bull coming in and doing a half-arsed job," says the former England centre, who made 203 appearances for the club.

From BBC

Co-host Phillip Schofield also lent his support and even took aim at the "half-arsed" response of Arts Council England, whose latest allocation of government funding has put a big question mark over ENO's future.

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“I regret that I kept going until that late in the day. It would have been a really half-arsed show, and I can’t do that. People will see straight through me up on the stage and know I didn’t want to be doing it. I’ve never done anything like that in my life, and I’m not going to start now.”

It would have been a really half-arsed show and I can't do that.

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I’ll level with you: it was, at best, a half-arsed analogy, I didn’t give it that much thought.

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