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half-assed; half-arsed
adjective- inferior, unsatisfactory, incompetent US, 1865
- East St. Louis, for example, was a half-assed gangster town. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 38, 1990
- Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day, and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way. — The Observer, 20 April 2003
- incomplete, not serious, half-hearted US, 1933
- They got a bang out of things, though–in a half-assed way, of course. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 6, 1951
- We’re talking about murder, man, not a little half-assed assault. — Elmore Leonard, City Primeval, p. 59, 1980
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