halfhearted

“And to see great fashion,” he added half-heartedly, in monotone and with no punctuation.
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But—contrary to many reports—Armstrong half-heartedly said he never pressured teammates into doping or fired them if they refused.
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In the work of the British writer Tom McCarthy, symbolism is never done half-heartedly.
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When she asked her daughter if she would help make a short movie of her life as a birthday gift, Vanessa laughed half-heartedly.
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They got it with Hillary even when feminist leaders were not supporting her or doing so half-heartedly.
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She blinked and dragged half-heartedly at the cigarette and then she turned and looked at the marble she was doing.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The King of Prussia now definitely withdrew the propositions which he had half-heartedly made before Wagram.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte|William Milligan Sloane
"Oh, I used to be pretty fair," he said half-heartedly, plunging into the distant past.
The Varmint|Owen Johnson
However, we continued, half-heartedly on his part, to shove our way on into the wood.
The Escape of a Princess Pat|George Pearson
It was among the third round of players that Marjorie and Muriel appeared, and only half-heartedly at that.
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British Dictionary definitions for halfhearted

half-hearted

adjective

without enthusiasm or determination

Derived forms of half-hearted

half-heartedly, adverbhalf-heartedness, noun

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