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Definition of Halfhearted
1. Adjective. Feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm. "Gave only lukewarm support to the candidate"
Similar to: Unenthusiastic
Derivative terms: Lukewarmness, Tepidness
Definition of Halfhearted
1. a. Wanting in heart or spirit; ungenerous; unkind.
Definition of Halfhearted
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of half-hearted) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Halfhearted
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halfhearted
Literary usage of Halfhearted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"The halfhearted unbelievers who turn sentimental over the charms of decayed
superstition, and the halfhearted believers who flirt with scepticism to prove ..."
2. The World and Yugoslavia's Wars by Richard Henry Ullman (1996)
"Combined with halfhearted sanctions and a well-orchestrated negotiating charade
on the part of Belgrade and the nationalist Serbs, UN action thus ..."
3. Salt and Light: Living the Sermon on the Mount by Eberhard Arnold (1998)
"No matter how clever it may be, no justification for their halfhearted behavior
will shield them ... He loves his enemies more than his halfhearted friends. ..."
4. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)
"They were exasperated with him for being a halfhearted shirker: he focussed on
them his hatred of the whole thing; he would have liked to take a signal ..."
5. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"By the one he is denounced as a man who holds incendiary principles; by the other
as a halfhearted " trimmer." He has no sympathy, as he says, ..."
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