half-hearted in English
after two years of halfhearted effort, he dropped out of school
Use "half-hearted" in a sentence
1. I made a half-hearted Attempt …
2. Her apology was very half-hearted.
3. Their criticism, however, was half-hearted.
4. Nor was it a half-hearted anthropomorphism.
5. Government action has been half-hearted and uncoordinated.
6. The Conservative government has made a half-hearted attempt to tax company cars - half-hearted because it fears upsetting natural Tory voters.
7. Congress has made half-hearted attempts at finance reform.
8. He made a half-hearted attempt to justify himself.
9. Indeed, half-hearted human-rights diplomacy can backfire nastily.
10. Yves had made a half-hearted attempt to be friendly.
11. Periodically, Congress has made half-hearted attempts at finance reform.
12. Discs' efforts in this direction have been decidedly half-hearted.
13. 4 Indeed, half-hearted human-rights diplomacy can backfire nastily.
14. Sir Thomas Blount's half-hearted investigation into Amy's death was absolutely barren.
15. He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
16. As he drew near she made a half-hearted move to rise.
17. His efforts, the Duke recollected many years later, were distinctly half-hearted.
18. 19 His efforts, the Duke recollected many years later, were distinctly half-hearted.
19. She glanced through the window in a half-hearted attempt to tell the hour.
20. People are starting to criticize the government for its half-hearted approach to reform.
21. When I threw a half-hearted punch in his general direction, he knocked me down.
22. I'd only mentioned sheep in a half-hearted attempt to change the subject of conversation.
23. No applause interrupted the speech, and only brief, half-hearted, clapping was heard at the end.
24. Even since the war industrial relocation schemes for rural areas have been half-hearted and inadequate.
25. For what did they know of her half-hearted attempts at abortion, the years' endurance.Sentence dictionary
26. There were various more or less half-hearted attempts to get over the finality of this selection.
27. We're also wondering why the university is now covering its butt legally with this half-hearted gesture.
28. Khruschev's half-hearted attempt to oust Dej in 1957 encouraged him to look for allies to counter Soviet influence.
29. Her responses to the usual chorus of cheery greetings were half-hearted; all she could focus on was Vitor d'Arcos.
30. Then, during late March and April, they made rather half-hearted and dilatory attempts to get agreement on this basis.
31. • Her responses to the usual chorus of Cheery greetings were half-hearted; all she could focus on was Vitor d'Arcos
32. The same half-hearted recognition of the concept of human capital can be detected in government education policies during the nineteenth century.
33. Later in the film, another teammate executes a half-hearted attempt to pull her aboard a fast-moving boat, leaving her behind.
34. A re-check should never be necessary, since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place.
35. The act of trying to do something, especially something difficult: [ + to infinitive ] She made a few half-hearted Attempts to join in their conversation
36. Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
37. THE FALL OF A NATION THOMAS DIXON I am rather the other way, so they call me a cynic and an Alarmist. THE HALF-HEARTED JOHN BUCHAN
38. For decades, Auteurists have been futzing with half-hearted apologias for their theory's essentialism, like claiming that the director's name is merely a stand-in for the collaborative process at whose center they reside
39. 9 hours ago · The Banishing has a script credited to three writers, which throws in some verbose loose ends about occult lore, religious discrimination and even a half-hearted, Raiders-of-the-Lost-Ark-style
40. By putting Alireza Tajiki to death, the Iranian authorities have demonstrated their appalling commitment for continuing with this abhorrent practise and shown they do not even have the will to implement their half-hearted reforms to save the lives of those convicted as children."
41. ‘But these Clumsy attempts to prevent its publication only promoted the swift growth of interest in the book.’ ‘The extraordinarily Clumsy and transparent attempt to bury the issue failed, however, resulting in a further inquiry and the present trials.’ ‘I made this Clumsy, half-hearted suicide attempt about a …
42. A coming of age novel that isn't burdened with sentimentality, The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones is a breezy, entertaining read about 16 year old Tony, depressed and in love, who, after a half-hearted suicide attempt, is sent to San Francisco to spend the summer with his pot-smoking, drug dealing, womanizing uncle Jack
43. Though, in the original text, the Duchess gets called not a "goose" but, less Appetizingly, a buse--a buzzard--this renomination of an object figured elsewhere as irresistibly succulent betokens less some failed or half-hearted attempt at aversion therapy than a perverse technique, like that still preferred by the subtlest (not to say the most jaded) of palates, for making the flavor of fowl more intoxicatingly "high" …
44. In the end, then, we just Bimbled about with half hearted plans each day.: A little later on that evening, I Bimbled into town to bank the cheque.: The course was in fine condition and as we Bimbled around, the weather was always wet and rainy so my bag cover went on.: We Bimbled through the town then had an ice cream near the boating lake before heading back to Burnham Market for a pre-dinner