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Definition of "halfheartedness" []

  • The characteristic of being half-hearted. (noun)

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Use "halfheartedness" in a sentence
  • "But I do not fear the word rupture — rupture with habits of thought, with ideas, with behaviors of the past that have prevented us from advancing, from grasping the future between our two arms … I want rupture with intellectual conformity … I want rupture with halfheartedness, I want rupture with conservatism, I want rupture with immobility."
  • "DeFarge, in her brisk, acerbic way, watches him pace and yanks him out of his halfheartedness and encroaching depression."
  • "Through this halfheartedness the anti-Semitic line of the Christian Social Party lost its value."