Wiktionary
Produced in an incompetent or desultory manner, or of something lacking in quality or substance; of low rank; incompetent. v
(context slang English) To perform a task incompletely or carelessly. Usually considered derogatory or insulting.
Usage examples of "half-ass".
What was it supposed to be, some half-assed political stunt that the Day Oners put you up to?
He held out his hands, a half-ass smile on his face, to indicate his baggy red shorts, blue cinch vest, and toeless airsneaks.
I mean, sure, it knocked the stuff out of me, scared the soul out one ear and back in the other, hit my wind and tore my gut, broke the bones and shook the wits, but, but, but, wife, but, but, but, clear sweet Meg, Meggy, Megan, I wish you were here, it might tamp the tobacco tars out of your half-ass lungs and bray the mossy graveyard backbreaking meanness from your marrow.
Leslie already had that half-assed comparison of the birdcage to some sort of sacred site stuck in his mind when he and Charlie soared through the bars, leaving the rest of the EVA team behind.
He had been through the entire list of the usuals, from Satanists all the way to half-assed dopeheads who thought they could bring on a better world by chopping the heads off calves and goats.
The island laws were administered through some half-assed tribunal called a subprefecture on St.
Maybe Dylan could concoct a half-assed story to explain what he and his brother were doing here when they were supposed to be on the road in New Mexico, but he didn't have the talent for deception or the time to craft a story to explain the gateway, the motel bathroom here on the hill, and Jilly peering cluelessly out at them as though she were Alice unsuccessfully attempting to scope the nature of the enchanted realm on the far side of the looking glass.
Half-ass Bowers from the one-six-two filed a complaint against me after I gave her a wrist slap for sloppy work.
I made myself a fried-egg sandwich for lunch, changed my jeans, brushed my hair into a half-assed ponytail, and plastered a ton of concealer over my pimple.
As Peter hadn't even formulated what he envisioned of T&T to tell Johnny, he certainly didn't want to muddy that idea with another half-assed concept, like breaking Tithonus free of the Patroclus group and moving it to an orbit around Callisto and using that as his place to stand.
I told him twice about that van, but he pooh-poohed the idea, said if he stopped to track down every half-assed theory the John Q.
I told him twice about that van, but he pooh-poohed the idea, said if he stopped to track down every half-assed theory the John Q. Public volunteered, he wouldn't get anything else done.
The Kiowa and that half-ass bunch of stray Apache they've adopted are still trying to live their old free ways.
The visitors had to be Kiowa-Apache, allied or adopted and hence half-ass Kiowa who spoke another lingo entirely.
I spotted a space halfway between my apartment and the restaurant and then did a half-assed job of parallel parking.