half-assedly en · ADV
Etymology
From half-assed + -ly.
Meanings
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(slang, vulgar) In a half-assed manner; poorly or incompetently.
Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers.
2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2017:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most half-assedly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more half-assedly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Relateds
halfheartedly · wholeheartedly
Translations (8)
es a la champa (Translations) · es fulastremente (Translations) · es fuleramente (Translations) · es cutremente (Translations) · pl na pół gwizdka (Translations) · es frangolleramente (Translations) · es chapuceramente (Translations) · es frangollonamente (Translations)