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half-assed

[ haf-ast, hahf- ]

adjective

Slang: Vulgar.
  1. insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
  2. incompetent; lacking sufficient ability or knowledge.


half-assed

adjective

  1. incompetent; inept
  2. lacking efficiency or organization
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of half-assed1

First recorded in 1960–65; half + ass 2 + -ed 3
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She adds, “I wouldn’t be able to do this show half-assed.”

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Snap’s Spectacles are truly horrid, like something you’d wear as part of a half-assed Andy Warhol costume on Halloween.

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“Every woman has a right to govern her own body – and no one should ever do anything half-assed.”

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And, just after Harris praised her late mother for teaching her and her sister to “never do anything half-assed,” Trump posted: “Kamala’s biography won’t lower prices at the Grocery Store, or at the Pump!”

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“I mixed it in a half-assed way and sent it to the company.”

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