HALF-BAKED


Meaning of HALF-BAKED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a half-baked idea (= an idea that has not been carefully thought out )

It’s yet another of the government’s half-baked ideas.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

What we've got here is a half-baked proposal that still needs a great deal of work.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Both Hayman's suggestions were too loose and half-baked for a man of his devious cunning to consider seriously for a moment.

Even if his history is half-baked , there is nothing amateurish about Mr Severin's voyage.

For certain technologies, notably strategic defence against nuclear weapons, researching makes more sense than deploying a half-baked system.

Here is the social democrat refusing to condemn the absurdities he chronicles so well; or simply producing half-baked observations.

Like other Thatcherite creations, the Enterprise Allowance Scheme is chock-a-block with buzzwords whose connection with reality is, at best, half-baked .

The question is whether, having raised the issue, green consumerism then legitimises a half-baked response.

There are more cranes than half-baked themes done to excess.

Youth culture has impregnated generation upon generation with half-baked alternatives.

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