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- adjective Produced in an
incompetent ordesultory manner, or of something lacking in quality or substance; of low rank; incompetent. - verb slang To perform a task
incompletely orcarelessly . Usually considered derogatory or insulting.
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Examples
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TNT's Charles Barkley on being frustrated by the Los Angeles Lakers: "It drives me nuts to be that good, as a guy who never won a championship, to have that embarrassment of riches and then just half-ass it throughout the season then just win games because they have the most talent."
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That is the only logical explanation for this meeting of half-ass desire and opportunity.
Jamie Reidy: Living Stupid Jamie Reidy 2011
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“I didn't sign up for this safari, regardless of the half-ass attempts at gentrification.”
Monkeytown excerpt 4 Chris Vola 2011
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I don't have any idea what computer he was sitting on that may have had access to articles written by Ivy League professors probably mine, or which half-ass conspiracy blogs those articles were linked to.
Monkeytown prologue/chapter first Chris Vola 2011
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As soon as I said that, Pooch charged the half-ass hobo with a bark and a growl, unheard of in these parts.
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You have got to be a spoof or you are most shitty, half-ass left radical on the planet.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Budget to Call for Freeze in Non-Security Discretionary Spending 2010
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Ross keep doing these half-ass progects given to average artists or guys that draw in a too much different than him.
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She probably came to him with some half-ass sob story to see if he was stupid enough to buy it, and if he was then that $100 would turn into something more really quickly.
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But feel free to half-ass comment on it with rhetorical labels.
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As soon as I said that, Pooch charged the half-ass hobo with a bark and a growl, unheard of in these parts.
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