halfhearted's Usage Examples:

during the 2nd Spanish Republic, bearing witness during Civil War to a halfhearted massive prison break by leftist prisoners that ended up with the death.

Evang himself had made a halfhearted attempt to promote Jon Bjørnsson as successor.

against worsening economic conditions, their intervention was timorous and halfhearted and doomed the movement to failure.

initially deposited on the nearby island of Jamaica, where she makes a halfhearted play for the colonial governor, but eventually readjusts her sights on.

A 1952 article in The Courier-Journal opined that "They stand in a halfhearted embrace, as if each startled the other with his gesture.

suppressed by Algarvians, although Unkerlanters have not made more than a halfhearted attempt to cross the Twegen.

troop commanders because they were pressing the siege in cowardly and halfhearted fashion.

commenting that "Kendrick Lamar somehow packs more personality into a halfhearted hook on 'Forbidden Fruit' than Cole gets in the song".

Even then, Thihathu's response was halfhearted.

independence as the Little Free State and were able to rebuff Mbandzeni's halfhearted attempts to evict them on the grounds that they had exceeded his mandate.

complaint was "a collection of laughably creaky old tropes at the center … a halfhearted stop at Señor Lazy’s Bargain Cliché Bin … predictable King-isms … a cutout.

runtime, "[leaving] behind too many loose ends while rushing to its halfhearted ending".

be a "pungent" satire, '"more supple than subtle", but faulted its "halfhearted love story" and concluded it was "more a polemic than a novel".

The PAVN would make one last halfhearted unsuccessful attempt at an attack on 9 March before leaving the battlefield.

receptive in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992), dismissing the record as "halfhearted" bossa nova atypical from their otherwise exceptional work together.

Synonyms:

half-hearted; unenthusiastic; lukewarm; tepid;

Antonyms:

gaga; passionate; spirited; cool; enthusiastic;