half-assed
[haf-ast, hahf-]
- insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
- incompetent; lacking sufficient ability or knowledge.
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Origin of half-assed
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Contemporary Examples
What a throwaway, half-assed response devoid of any sort of research.
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May 20, 2014
Somers has gotten a lot of flak for her crazy assertions and half-assed medical theories.
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It was “half-assed,” observes a Middle East insider close to the administration.
Instead, the studio got a half-assed explanation: “No points for early,” I argue.
Had the SEC done even a half-assed job, the Ponzi scheme would have been discovered a decade ago.
Historical Examples
I didn't do it, and I can beat any case that half-assed ex-ambulance-chaser, Farnsworth, could dream up against me.
Murder in the GunroomHenry Beam Piper
half-assed
- incompetent; inept
- lacking efficiency or organization
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Word Origin and History for half-assed
adj.
"ineffectual," 1932, perhaps a humorous mispronunciation of haphazard.
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