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Synonyms for half-hearted
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : haf-hahr-tid, hahf- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæfˈhɑr tɪd, ˈhɑf- |
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Définition of half-hearted
Origin :- also halfhearted, early 15c.; see half + hearted. Related: halfheartedly; halfheartedness. English in 17c. also had half-headed "stupid."
- adj unenthusiastic
- At the same time, what's the world for, if you're to meet it in that half-hearted way?
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- Old friends were gone from him; new friends were but half-hearted.
- Extract from : « Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) » by Various
- But this being so, and you but half-hearted, I tell you, it is too dangerous a game to play for groats.
- Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
- Had he stopped there her belief would have only been half-hearted.
- Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope
- I had never known him handle a case in such a half-hearted fashion.
- Extract from : « The Return of Sherlock Holmes » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The recall is a half-hearted and negative way of dealing with this difficulty.
- Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
- She simply did not know how to give a half-hearted response.
- Extract from : « O Pioneers! » by Willa Cather
- It will be a contest in which no half-hearted recruit is wanted.
- Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 » by Various
- The time for half-hearted or three-quarters-hearted attempts to forge ahead were over.
- Extract from : « Tutors' Lane » by Wilmarth Lewis
- He cut short the banker's half-hearted apologies for not prolonging the evening.
- Extract from : « Fantmas » by Pierre Souvestre
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