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halfhearted

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1. halfhearted - Adjective

2. halfhearted - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm

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Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war [Vietnam], vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand. Colin Powell

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all. Barbara Ehrenreich

Why should we not go to the extremes if we desire to play a part in the great world drama?...to go to the extremes is ever symptomatic of genius and greatness. Weakness is to compromise, to hesitate, to be halfhearted. Arthur Desmond

I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything. Lou Reed

a halfhearted effort Source: Internet

gave only lukewarm support to the candidate Source: Internet

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