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half-baked

[ haf-beykt, hahf- ]

adjective

  1. insufficiently cooked.
  2. not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared:

    a half-baked proposal for tax reform.

  3. lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic.


half-baked

adjective

  1. insufficiently baked
  2. informal.
    foolish; stupid
  3. informal.
    poorly planned or conceived
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of half-baked1

First recorded in 1615–25
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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."

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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.

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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.

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Other White House figures have offered similarly half-baked defenses of Trump’s tariff approach.

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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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