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A half-assed effort is one that is unplanned, incompetent, or ambivalently undertaken. ‘Half-asked’ nicely expresses the similar idea of partial or indifferent motivation. Examples:

You either do it right and get meaningful data, or you do it half-asked and end up with meaningful sounding numbers that are devoid of anything substantial.
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I repeat: One big full-service recreation centre is better, and cheaper, than two half-asked ones.
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A half-asked effort produces half-asked results.
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... it isnt the VUEs fault that no one can find any decent service in washington DC, everyone does such half asked work. ...
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Seven days full of half-asked physics labs, rushed tutorials, last minute assignments, and poking fun of engineers.
www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/blogging/tyler/busy-busy-busy

This team is better than the way they are playing…and it is sickening to watch such half-asked efforts.
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I think in many respects co-habitation is simply being half-asked about marriage.
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