halfhearted in English

adjective

1

without enthusiasm or energy.

after two years of halfhearted effort, he dropped out of school

synonyms: unenthusiastic, cool, lukewarm, tepid, apathetic, indifferent, uninterested, unconcerned, languid, listless, perfunctory, cursory, superficial, desultory, feeble, lackluster

adjective

• half-hearted, lukewarm, tepid

adjective

• unenthusiastic, cool, lukewarm, tepid, apathetic, indifferent, uninterested, unconcerned, languid, listless, perfunctory, cursory, superficial, desultory, feeble, lackluster
• halfhearted, lukewarm, tepid

Use "halfhearted" in a sentence

1. However, reforms have often been halfhearted.

2. But Kane wasn't settling for a halfhearted commitment.

3. He does nothing in a halfhearted way.

4. A face - saving, halfhearted lunge would follow.

5. During that time, my worship was halfhearted, simply a matter of routine.

6. Our formerly enjoyable job can become rote, our execution sloppy and halfhearted.

7. God is not interested in halfhearted commitment, partial obedience, and the leftovers of your time and money.

8. We made a halfhearted attempt to explore Sake and even Japanese whisky but eventually gave up.

9. After a couple of halfhearted bucks he settled and found the whole thing rather boring.

10. He tried to start things up in a halfhearted sort of way, but she gave him an ultimatum.

11. But you wouldn't know it from the halfhearted response to proposals giving investors a direct say on executive pay.

12. Western military intervention—no matter how halfhearted and apparently ineffectual—is still sufficient to tip the balance against a rogue regime.

13. (Psalm 119:113-120) We do not approve of “halfhearted ones,” even as Jesus disapproves of lukewarm professing Christians today.

14. The Europeans still cling to it, though, with the return of "liberal interventionism" in Libya, but it is anxious and halfhearted.

15. They have given the appearance of objecting but in such a halfhearted way that the worldly person was encouraged to continue what he was doing.

16. The city might put up a halfhearted fight, but with hardly a chirp, its inhabitants will be quickly subdued, their resources plucked up like eggs from an abandoned nest.

17. God is not interested in halfhearted commitment, partial obedience, and the leftovers of your time and money. He desires your full devotion, not little bits of your life.

18. After a full 30 min of sitting with the menus still in front of us, the head waiter came by to tell us in the Brusquest, most dismissive tone ever, that they were no longer serving bubble tea And then immediately turned on his heel and walked away without so much as a halfhearted apology!