The Collaborative International Dictionary
Half-read
Half-read \Half"-read`\ (-r[e^]d`), a.
Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow.
--Dryden.
Usage examples of "half-read".
He bought his ticket from a window which framed an Indian booking clerk in a blue turban, and then got a newspaper and stood, half-reading, observing the departures indicator over the paper's top edge.
They live in a bedroom cocoon of un-rewound VCR tapes, rancid yogurt containers, empty prescription bottles, color-coded vitamin jars, half-eaten meals, lipsticked napkins, stained blankets, and half-read magazines and books.