half-fledged

  The prospect, for a half-fledged senator of 36, was incredible: his party was fairly begging him to run for Vice President.

Teddy Kennedy’s Decision 2009

A half-fledged nun arrives, and in a couple of weeks has grasped domestic details, of which the master diplomatist at the head of the house is quite ignorant.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

So had spoken to him a half-fledged but especially esoteric young monster-cub at the

Framley Parsonage 2004

I have the best hopes of you both, with your proud distinctions - a pair of half-fledged eaglets.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Dr Grantly had not cared to discuss the matter with the half-fledged monster-cub.

Framley Parsonage 2004

She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence — the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment — whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

It was composed of different branches of a numerous family connection, where there were the usual proportion of old uncles and aunts, comfortable married dames, superannuated spinsters, blooming country cousins, half-fledged striplings, and bright-eyed boarding-school hoydens.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

"Then why, " rumbled the infamous Skandranon, the Black Gryphon, 'don't you tell that overbearing half-fledged idiot that his orders are a pile of steaming mutes?

The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994

The angular half-fledged woman was giving way to the full-fledged graduate in law.

Maigret in Holland Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1993

"They're always hatching half-fledged plans and discarding them."

The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991