half-baked
insufficiently cooked.
not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared: a half-baked proposal for tax reform.
lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic.
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How to use half-baked in a sentence
"The ideas were good, but they were half-baked," one senior staffer explained.
Special Ops Commander Swears: I Won't Be Hillary's VP | Kimberly Dozier | August 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThen there were those songs that were either too half-baked or half-hearted to even fool us into turning them into smash hits.
Can Jessie J’s ‘Bang Bang’ Save Us From This Awful Musical Summer? | Kevin Fallon | July 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“When you see Half Baked 2, make no mistake about it, I have completely run out of money,” he joked.
Dave Chappelle’s Triumphant Return to New York City | Alex Suskind | June 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the anti-Stalinism competes with half-baked fantasies about a better tomorrow.
This 1979 Novel Predicted Putin’s Invasion Of Crimea | Michael Weiss | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMore than any other American institution, baseball most wholeheartedly welcomes half-baked history and curdled lore.
Home Runs, Frozen Ropes, And Some Wild Cards In Best Baseball Books | Robert Birnbaum | April 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Or are all you Mentorians so gutless that you believe any half-baked folk tale the Lhari pass off on you?
The Colors of Space | Marion Zimmer BradleyIt is true that she regarded her as a half-baked natural, but she would never let anyone but herself say so.
The Pagan's Cup | Fergus HumeNot in all his career had he ever been known to discuss in print his theories, or deductions, or half-baked conclusion.
The Substitute Prisoner | Max MarcinThis is characteristic of an excess in education; of the half baked mind overtrained.
Marse Henry (Vol. 2) | Henry WattersonHe believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, but which is peculiarly attractive to a half-baked mind.
Howards End | E. M. Forster
British Dictionary definitions for half-baked
insufficiently baked
informal foolish; stupid
informal poorly planned or conceived
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