How to Use half-baked in a Sentence

half-baked

adjective

• Even after four years in the oven, the might still be coming out half-baked.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023
• The game still feels quite awkward at times, and it's still plagued by some half-baked ideas.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2023
• Isn’t there someone in his camp who can tell him these jokes are half-baked?
  — William Earl, Variety, 27 Dec. 2023
• To have two or three people from the movie come into this world looks a little half-baked.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Tom’s half-baked plan is to take revenge by stealing cash-advance checks from the banker’s trash.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• My Memorial Day weekend plans are half-baked, and my luggage set is nowhere near packed.
  — Halie Lesavage, harpersbazaar.com, 18 May 2023
• Some other half-baked food pun that no one in their right mind would ever share with the general public?
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 26 Jan. 2024
• The pita was toasty but soft, arriving half-baked and frozen from Angel’s Bakery in Israel and finished fresh in the oven at the restaurant.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• The culprit is a half-baked screenplay that plays it too loose and falls short of being consistently funny.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• References to British colonialism were also half-baked, some critics said at the time.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2024
• All necessary praise aside, one of the great joys of tracing Taylor Swift's arc is seeing her sound bleed across genres, from country and pop to (half-baked) hip-hop and folk and back.
  — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
• Glitches, bugs and half-baked features are all part of the experience, and many will only work with other beta testers.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• The friends’ conversation flowed from half-baked business ideas to a debate over who would win in a fight between a triceratops and a woolly mammoth.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• There will continue to be developments in the space, but gone are the days of companies touting their half-baked metaverse projects.
  — Schuyler Moore, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• So why does Ethereum continue to embrace these half-baked L2 solutions?
  — Kathleen Breitman, Fortune Crypto, 5 Apr. 2023
• These Bruins were half-baked — great offense, dreadful defense.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Huerta is beyond worthy of recognition, but this section felt rushed and half-baked, the photographs of Huerta stiff and posed.
  — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 14 May 2024
• All while half-baked visions promise salvation that may never come.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
• Even without knowing the backstory, the many contradictions and half-baked arguments suggest this book grew out of a stoned idea.
  — Kathleen Breitman, Fortune Crypto, 20 July 2023
• The tone, which seemingly changes by the minute, is off from the start and leaves an utterly charmless trail of half-baked ideas and misguided attempts at subversive edginess in its wake.
  — Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
• But it gets lost in the shrill goofiness of a concept, which, at best, feels like the sort of half-baked SNL character sketches that tend to get buried in the slot following the second musical performance.
  — Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
• Monday’s pile-on of half-baked AI announcements across social media was the latest example.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• That’s because sometimes people receive half-baked information that doesn’t tell the whole story.
  — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 2 June 2024
• In a society where social media enables anyone to share both truths and lies (Twitter), and half-baked hot takes at will (TikTok), discourse fatigue is inevitable.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 12 Oct. 2023
• Sure, Magna got Ocean production going in late 2022, but those early cars were especially half-baked, missing things as simple as cruise control.
  — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 20 June 2024
• The two are reunited when Silva unexpectedly shows up at the sheriff’s door with a half-baked excuse, 25 years after a two-month romance that almost turned into more.
  — Elaina Patton, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• Officials expect to face criticism and debate if their analysis is half-baked.
  — Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2023
• And if your first instinct is to make half-baked plans with the person just to avoid the awkward silence or to be polite, remember that there are other ways to maintain friendships besides actually hanging out.
  — Cory Stieg, refinery29.com, 21 June 2024
• Josh Trank’s first attempt after getting out of director jail is a half-baked biopic that never truly comes together in its weirdness or its storytelling.
  — Elliott Smith and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 23 May 2024
• Writing half-baked verses about the divine powers of truth, beauty, gravity, and magnetism had become as fashionable as playing the clavichord.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024