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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Since this half-baked decision yesterday, our delegates are very confused and upset.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Many of them are still guided by Mark Zuckerberg’s famous motto of moving fast and breaking things – a directive to release half-baked products and worry about the implications later.
    Nir Eisikovits, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
  • And the way this legacy antihero is treated like an afterthought, a needless addition to the supervillian roster, a half-baked Promethean concept and, later, a plot convenience is a huge bummer for fans.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Share this story Pokémon Scarlet and Violet arrived a little less than half-baked and buggier than any of the franchise’s previous mainline entries.
    Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2024

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