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Definition of "half-arsed" [half-arsed]

  • Alternative spelling of half-assed. (adjective)

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Use "half-arsed" in a sentence
  • "Seven months later the language's presence on the Commission's website had progressed from being non-existent to being half-arsed."
  • "You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod."
  • "It's a half-arsed argument by analogy that nods in the direction of an appeal to authority."