Meanings
adverbhalf-assedly (comparative more half-assedly, superlative most half-assedly)
comparative more half-assedly · superlative most half-assedly
- slangvulgarIn 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
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Polish na pół gwizdka
- na pół gwizdkaTranslations
Spanish a la champa, chapuceramente
- a la champaTranslations
- chapuceramenteTranslations
- cutrementeTranslations
- fulastrementeTranslations
- frangollonamenteTranslations
- frangolleramenteTranslations
- fuleramenteTranslations
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APA
half-assedly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/half-assedly
MLA
“half-assedly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/half-assedly. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “half-assedly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/half-assedly.
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