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The mash-up vibe is a little less morally idiotic than it appeared from the movie’s advance trailers, if only because the characters come off less like digital automatons and more like half-successful cosplayers.

From Slate • Jul. 16, 2021

But they are like Heathers who have undergone half-successful aversion therapy.

From Time • Apr. 5, 2012

I’ve seen a lot of half-successful American and British productions of Chekhov.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2011

The net of government policy, shuttling between these poles, is a spending philosophy tempered by periodic, half-successful efforts at cutting the budget deficit, holding down imports, juggling wages, prices, exchange rates.

From Time Magazine Archive

Expressions are not divisible into classes, but some are successful, others half-successful, others failures.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto