halfhearted

The United States will issue a halfhearted rebuke and some useless words about “deploring the deaths” that occurred on the ships.

He began to make a somewhat halfhearted effort to explain what had happened.

At the mouth of the alley stood Charles, wearing a halfhearted VampMob outfit of black t-shirt and jeans and white face-paint.

Since teachers were either poorly paid or were hacienda guests, they offered halfhearted service.

Two or three women, far back in the hall, start a halfhearted handclapping.

And Antony took enough time from Cleopatra's side to make halfhearted preparations to resist.

The others of the "indigenous" school have proved halfhearted and vague.