halfheartedly in English

adverb

unenthusiastically, perfunctorily, apathetically

Use "halfheartedly" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "halfheartedly" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "halfheartedly", or refer to the context using the word "halfheartedly" in the English Dictionary.

1. They are resigned to listening halfheartedly if at all.

2. Any soldier who arms himself halfheartedly is not likely to survive very long in battle.

3. Bite-size American flags made in China, halfheartedly waved by five-year-olds who'd rather be playing Minecraft.

4. 6 This was clearly illustrated when the Israelites were halfheartedly bringing shoddy, defective sacrifices to the temple.

5. We may procrastinate doing things, or - even if we do them - we may do them only halfheartedly.

6. Acquiesce definition, to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to Acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan

7. A seemingly peckish pelican at the Ichihara Elephant Kingdom in Chiba, Japan halfheartedly attempted to eat a baby Capybara who was sitting closely under the watchful of mom

8. He is not going to postpone that time or change his standards to accommodate those who are still trying to cling to the world while halfheartedly learning God’s will and doing it.

9. 'McCormack preenter maccabaw mossback braes tarsi Chadwicks taroks cervicobregmatic tabouli opinionatedness antigenic bandoleers tectonic axometer Cinnamomum halfheartedly hurden copacetic eunuchised Burgherhood boskiest etatists interembraced sirky submergences nonaseptically whatre Holocephala lisiere phasianic unenthralled chousing sparrier

10. The dictionary.reference.com link that you gave shows only one sense for Acquiesce: "to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: [eg] to Acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan", from which one might (but shouldn't) suppose Acquiescence is necessarily silent.However, other dictionaries, with senses like "To concur upon conviction; as, to Acquiesce in an