half-baked
Use Half-baked in a sentence
adjective
1.
insufficiently cooked.
2.
not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared: a half-baked proposal for tax reform.
3.
lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic.
Origin:
1615–25
1615–25
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| half-baked | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | insufficiently baked |
| 2. | informal foolish; stupid |
| 3. | informal poorly planned or conceived |
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Half-baked
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
All too often, they blame the civil service when their own ideas are half-baked, or have no idea how to deliver them.
Although the science was questionable and the politics were the usual half-baked compromises.
All they have are half-baked computer models that are totally out of touch with reality and have already been proven to be false.
In that case half-baked, not-quite-heme molecules pile up.
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