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comparative more halfhearted, superlative most halfhearted
Lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve. quotations examples
There were chants against the domestic league's president Dumitru Dragomir and also a half-hearted two-man pitch invasion by Universitatea Craiova fans protesting at the expulsion of their club from the league.
2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian
(obsolete) Lacking in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind. quotations
such animals, Half-hearted creatures, as these are, your fox there
1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640