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
  • 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
  • Since this half-baked decision yesterday, our delegates are very confused and upset.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024

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