halfhearted

The crowd on the floor responded with a half-hearted murmur of assent.

It was clear that menace and outrage would not move him, and that more was wanted than the half-hearted measures of the Gironde.

Maitland went forth into the thick night: a half-hearted London thaw was filling the shivering air with a damp brown fog.

At any rate, I got only a half-hearted consent from her that I might start.

This half-hearted defence gave courage to those who took the high ground that the time for lynching had gone by.

Nothing came from the balcony, wherein Helen's sweet voice wandered, save a faint, half-hearted hand-clapping.