half-hearted

How To Use half-hearted In A Sentence

• His efforts, the Duke recollected many years later,(Sentence dictionary) were distinctly half-hearted.
• Complaints to the ministry have only resulted in half-hearted attempts to solve the problem.
• Grabbing my leather purse, I waved half-heartedly at Lily, trudging after Billy, and down the hallway.
• Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
• I had half-heartedly tried growing tomatoes once before in Charleston and knew that these evil pests loved to take a chomp out of a just-ripe tomato.
• When the errant screeches of violins and the half-hearted toots of one determined flutist died down, he cleared his throat.
• Joanna had made one or two half-hearted attempts to befriend Graham's young wife.
• By contrast, when compliance is performed manually, the effort is typically left to the last minute and performed half-heartedly.
• I remember too my half-hearted attempts to empathise. Times, Sunday Times
• When attempts are made to individualize the characters, their personality quirks seem half-hearted and copied from any number of other war movies.