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half-assedly

half-assedly adverb: in a half-assed manner; poorly or incompetently.

Adverb

half-assedly (comparative more half-assedly, superlative most half-assedly)

  1. (slang, vulgar) In a half-assed manner; poorly or incompetently.
    • Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers.2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2017

Forms of half-assedly

comparativemore half-assedly
superlativemost half-assedly

Origin of half-assedly

From half-assed + -ly.

Questions about half-assedly

What does half-assedly mean?
Half-assedly means in a half-assed manner; poorly or incompetently.
What part of speech is half-assedly?
Half-assedly is an adverb.

Words near half-assedly in the dictionary

  1. half-arse
  2. half-arsed
  3. half-asleep
  4. half-ass
  5. half-assed
  6. half-assedly
  7. half-assedness
  8. half-assery
  9. half-asses
  10. half-assing
  11. half-awake

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