Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Only partly baked.
- adjective Insufficiently thought out; ill-conceived.
- adjective Exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not thoroughly baked; hence, in colloquial use, raw; inexperienced; silly; immature; ill-digested.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out; impractical or unrealistic; ; -- of plans, theories, proposals, etc.
- adjective Insufficiently cooked; -- of food.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Used other than as an idiom: Partially
cooked byheating in anoven . - adjective idiomatic, informal In
complete ; (of anidea orscheme ) not fullyplanned or carefullyconsidered ,ill-conceived ,unsound or badlythought-out ; (of a person) foolish or having no common sense.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective insufficiently cooked
- adjective foolish; totally unsound
Etymologies
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Examples
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The SEC was sharply criticized last year by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff over what he called a "half-baked" settlement with Bank of America Corp. over disclosures about its takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co. The Charlotte, N.C., bank agreed to pay $150 million, but no individuals were charged.
Challenges in Chasing Fraud Jean Eaglesham 2011
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Mr. Rakoff rejected a $33 million settlement between Bank of America and the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed in 2009 before reluctantly approving a later $150 million agreement he called "half-baked justice at best."
Merrill Lynch to Pay $315 Million to Settle Mortgage-Loans Lawsuit Dan Fitzpatrick 2011
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Many children master the material only in a half-baked way, but the teachers pretend the students can “read” and pass them along.
Dolch Words: How Dummies Teach Reading « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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If half-baked Alaska would have stepped foot in New Jersey campaigning for Christie, I have no doubt it would have changed my vote (and many others) to Corzine
Christie, McDonnell explain Palin's absence from campaign trail 2009
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I can manage his pretentions at being an historian, no serious student of history would ever take his half-baked notions of a benign Hitler as credible anyway, but not a moral failure of this degree, its too basic, too fundamental.
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Seeking cert without serious error, or a conflict, or a factual record is pretty unimpressive, and the weird, half-baked attack on E-Verify is an embarrassment at best, and a shocking deviation from the standards of the office at worst.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Solicitor General Lays an Egg 2010
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It is the right of the people to protest government waste, irresponsible spending, half-baked policies (healthcare 'reform') and plain stupidity.
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It is the right of the people to protest government waste, irresponsible spending, half-baked policies (healthcare 'reform') and plain stupidity.
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Sure, viewers sit through season after season of God-awful warbling on DioGuardi's old show American Idol, but on Platinum Hit, contestants are not only shaky singers, they're all performing their own half-baked, unproven material.
Kara DioGuardi on Platinum Hit's Bad Singing Problem, Plans for More Post-Idol TV 2011
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There can be no half-baked compromises on terror or with terrorists.
Obama: Systemic, human failures let terror suspect on U.S. flight 2009
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