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half-heartedly

ADVERB
  1. without enthusiasm; in a half-hearted manner
    she tried half-heartedly

How To Use half-heartedly In A Sentence

  • I prefer to think like a punter: a slummock on the sofa half-heartedly watching Match Of The Day, or a sweaty Christmas-bag-laden shopper trudging my way to the bus stop.
  • We talked half-heartedly for a while about London and house prices.
  • Blue pulled half-heartedly at the meat she held in her hand, the cooked leg of some unfortunate bird.
  • Right now she has an artist's brush, but is using it to half-heartedly daub a go-faster stripe along the side of her burgundy Vauxhall Meriva. This week's new singles
  • He half-heartedly nodded his greetings at several gentlemen who'd yelled their hellos to him from across the room, but he was too driven to stop.
  • Brae sat back happily and listened half-heartedly to Chase's unceasing jabber.
  • So you can imagine my surprise when I open the door to find two odorous men, half-heartedly mumbling that they're here to ‘move me’.
  • I responded rather half-heartedly with a fairly tame story from my past, and chucked her the names of a few people who I thought might be better suited.
  • He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. Isaac Newton 
  • I have been half-heartedly trying to draft a post, but couldn't quite work up any enthusiasm.
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