halfhearted
adjective
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apathetic, cool, impassive, indifferent, irresolute, lackluster, listless, lukewarm, neutral, passive, perfunctory, spiritless, tame, tepid, unenthusiastic, uninterestedExamples from the Web for half-hearted
Contemporary Examples of half-hearted
Then there were those songs that were either too half-baked or half-hearted to even fool us into turning them into smash hits.
Your query will be answered with a blank stare, followed by a long pause and half-hearted reply: My accountant?
So, in “The Runaways,” Don engages in a half-hearted ménage-a-trois AND outsmarts his frenemies.
Mad Men’s ‘The Runaways’: Three-Way Sex and Self-Mutilation in the Craziest Episode YetMarlow Stern
May 12, 2014
The early scandal, but really it was a blip of gossip with half-hearted twangs, was that Sonja had a younger beau.
Betrayal, Blowjobs, and Bitchery: the 'Real Housewives' Get Really DesperateTim Teeman
March 12, 2014
The crowd on the floor responded with a half-hearted murmur of assent.
Historical Examples of half-hearted
At the same time, what's the world for, if you're to meet it in that half-hearted way?
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
Old friends were gone from him; new friends were but half-hearted.
But this being so, and you but half-hearted, I tell you, it is too dangerous a game to play for groats.
The Wild GeeseStanley John Weyman
Had he stopped there her belief would have only been half-hearted.
Kept in the DarkAnthony Trollope
I had never known him handle a case in such a half-hearted fashion.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle