Similar words: halfhearted, cold-hearted, kindhearted, lighthearted, warm-hearted, warmhearted, wholehearted, wholeheartedly. Meaning: adj. feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm.
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1. He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
2. Joanna had made one or two half-hearted attempts to befriend Graham's young wife.
3. He made a half-hearted attempt to justify himself.
4. Congress has made half-hearted attempts at finance reform.
5. Government action has been half-hearted and uncoordinated.
6. Periodically, Congress has made half-hearted attempts at finance reform.
7. Their criticism, however, was half-hearted.
8. Discs' efforts in this direction have been decidedly half-hearted.
9. Nor was it a half-hearted anthropomorphism.
10. Yves had made a half-hearted attempt to be friendly.
11. Her apology was very half-hearted.
12. When I threw a half-hearted punch in his general direction(sentencedict.com), he knocked me down.
13. But agile he isn't; witness this rather half-hearted attempt at the long jump.
14. She glanced through the window in a half-hearted attempt to tell the hour.
15. Later in the film, another teammate executes a half-hearted attempt to pull her aboard a fast-moving boat, leaving her behind.
16. The same half-hearted recognition of the concept of human capital can be detected in government education policies during the nineteenth century.
17. Khruschev's half-hearted attempt to oust Dej in 1957 encouraged him to look for allies to counter Soviet influence.
18. As he drew near she made a half-hearted move to rise.
19. The Conservative government has made a half-hearted attempt to tax company cars - half-hearted because it fears upsetting natural Tory voters.
20. For what did they know of her half-hearted attempts at abortion, the years' endurance.Sentence dictionary
21. His efforts, the Duke recollected many years later, were distinctly half-hearted.
22. We're also wondering why the university is now covering its butt legally with this half-hearted gesture.
23. Litigation is not for the faint-hearted - or the half-hearted.
24. A re-check should never be necessary, since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place.
25. Her responses to the usual chorus of cheery greetings were half-hearted; all she could focus on was Vitor d'Arcos.
26. Nothing much happens, and even the love story seems half-hearted.
27. Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 
28. My attempt to follow that with a lemon curd tart was a bit half-hearted.
29. Even since the war industrial relocation schemes for rural areas have been half-hearted and inadequate.
30. People are starting to criticize the government for its half-hearted approach to reform.
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