Halfhearted

After the show the Tour Manager with a capital T made a halfhearted attempt at making nice.

Also in 1940, the huge Italian army in Libya launched a halfhearted invasion of Egypt, only to be routed by a small British force that almost ejected them from Africa.

But the fact that Bloomberg isn’t even trying to make a halfhearted effort to explain how his thinking about Wall Street has supposedly evolved makes it really difficult to believe he’ll keep that bargain.

There were a few faint, halfhearted laughs from the audience in the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton, but the fact is, it's an old joke.

Even if Apple doesn’t cancel this service before it even gets off the ground, it could end up being the same halfhearted mess that was gaming on the Apple Watch and Apple TV.

He awakens sometime later, to find his elders standing over him, asking, in halfhearted admonishment, why he shot his new aunt.

It is that blacks aren’t stupid enough to believe the halfhearted argument that they’d fare much better with Republicans than with Democrats.

But will we remember this year’s halftime show, where he not-so-smoothly slid a few bars of Prince’s “I Will Die 4 U” into one of his songs in a halfhearted tribute done solely because the game was in Minneapolis this year?

In part for that reason, some thinkers on both the right and the left came to use it as an epithet, shorthand for a halfhearted and weak-kneed lack of conviction.