half-right

British  

adjective

1. not entirely correct

   they were only half-right

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Example Sentences

The best companies prove the hype was half-right all along.

From MarketWatch

So according to Sebens, in a way, Pauli and Lorentz were half-right: there isn’t a spinning particle.

From Scientific American

Turns out, Mike McCarthy was only half-right.

From Washington Post

The earworm jingle that opens “The Beverly Hillbillies” TV show gets it only half-right, because here, “swimming pools” got decoupled from “movie stars” many decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times

Although SMA phenotypes vary widely, he gets a few crucial details wrong, or at best half-right, from the functions of the cough-assist to the disease’s progression to a desultory mention of such transformative drugs as Spinraza.

From Washington Post