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US
/ˈhæfˌbeɪkt/
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ADJECTIVE
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foolish; totally unsound
a crazy scheme
half-baked ideas
a screwball proposal without a prayer of working - insufficiently cooked
How To Use half-baked In A Sentence
- It is full of those little moments of impotency, existentialism and half-baked philosophical epiphanies that happen to us all.
- I will investigate the links and come back with yet more half-baked questions, I imagine… cheers chaps!
- The one completely half-baked notion I had at the end was that Barry Egan was Popeye.
- I miss watching a continous, meaningful story where I don't get new half-baked characters shoved down my throat every other episode. Undefined
- Each time European policymakers reacted similarly: with denial and dithering, followed at the eleventh hour with a half-baked rescue plan to buy time.
- half-baked ideas
- The world cannot afford another half-baked solution. Times, Sunday Times
- Mike HarveyOswestry, Shropshire• In the euphoria of seeing the government forced into an embarrassing "yew turn" on the half-baked forest sell-off plan Letters, 18 February, there is a danger that real damage to the Forestry Commission will go unnoticed. Letters: When the rot set in at the Forestry Commission
- He's way better than all the other half-baked shamateurs who crop up in the canvas chairs during Davis Cup ties, but he's not going to win a major and it's not his fault.
- The one complaint possible against Isadora Duncan is that she has rendered us immoderately dissatisfied with what had once moderately contented us; and the fear is that we shall promptly have a host of half-baked imitators, who will copy the mere accidentals of her system without understanding the essentials, and will fancy that the whole matter is one of clothes and music, and prance about bare-legged, meaninglessly. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"