Lacking in zeal

Usage examples of halfhearted.

This well-known Chekhovian ambiguity is not a halfhearted mixture of contraries.

The engines that so imperfectly transformed magnetic attraction to a halfhearted repulsion functioned more and more smoothly as the complication of gravitic pull and counterpull yielded to distance.

After a subjective love-affair, addicts become halfhearted about the real thing and that was the end of that.

Our allies in the region have watched the United States make halfhearted efforts at regime change for the last twelve years.

The colonel and Rex went off once or twice with the Jaegers, but in a halfhearted way, bringing back more experience than game.

But even among the senatorial moneylenders opposition was halfhearted, as everyone could appreciate that collecting some money was better than collecting none, and Sulla had not attempted to abolish interest entirely.

There was some halfhearted booing from the diehards who never want a fight stopped, and one of Canelli's cornermen was insisting his fighter could have gone on, but Canelli himself seemed just as happy the show was over.

While there’s sometimes a halfhearted effort at draping—shrouding the body when cleaning, evacuating and examining—serious crips, real crips, macho crips don’t care.

While there's sometimes a halfhearted effort at draping-shrouding the body when cleaning, evacuating and examining-serious crips, real crips,macho crips don't care.

While numerous loud threats were exchanged, and some halfhearted pushing and shoving went on, Ruby Archuleta lazed over to a grassy slope, sat down, and bemusedly smoked a cigarette.

The herd was already slackening their halfhearted chase -- anybody could see that there was nothing earthly capable of catching up -- when, to everybody's astonishment, the arrow missed that huge two-lane opening by a good five feet and crashed full tilt into the Cyclone fence.

Then Pam chugged her pop and hopped through the rain and into her car, driving back to Hamilton in a halfhearted Transylvanian drag race.

Previous owners had made a halfhearted attempt to create a usable space out of it, insulating the roof and putting in a drop ceiling so that it resembled a room, albeit not for the particularly tall, the ceiling only about seven feet high.

The prisoners of war and the forced laborers from occupied lands gave halfhearted service at best, and they persisted in sabotage no matter how many were shot.

He retired to his chamber after a couple of halfhearted jibes at the weapons master to break his concentration.