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half-baked
[ haf-beykt, hahf- ]
adjective
- insufficiently cooked.
- not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared:
a half-baked proposal for tax reform.
- lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic.
half-baked
adjective
- insufficiently baked
- informal.foolish; stupid
- informal.poorly planned or conceived
Word History and Origins
Origin of half-baked1
Example Sentences
She added: "Instead of introducing unworkable and half-baked measures which would prevent the police monitoring serious antisemitism and other racist incidents, the Tories should support the Labour government's prioritisation of neighbourhood policing and serious violence."
Technology is eating itself alive, and the “art” that so much of the public chooses to consume is half-baked or, worse, generated by ChatGPT.
Habib Balian told a judge that Gascón simply didn’t “get” the case and had only carried out a half-baked analysis of the brothers’ past trials and their willingness to accept responsibility for the murders.
Other White House figures have offered similarly half-baked defenses of Trump’s tariff approach.
Eating the rich has never been quite so putrid a task as watching “Death of a Unicorn,” a truly toothless satire that I’d struggle to even deem “half-baked.”
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