half-right

adjective

1. not entirely correct

   they were only half-right

Example Sentences

Beijing in its initial response to the Australian defense policy shift, said the DSR gets it half-right — the U.S. is no longer the region’s “unipolar” power, according to Chen Hong, president of the Chinese Association of Australian Studies and director of the Australian Studies Centre at East China Normal University, but Australia’s response to that fact is seriously “misguided.”

From Washington Times

So according to Sebens, in a way, Pauli and Lorentz were half-right: there isn’t a spinning particle.

From Scientific American

Turns out, Mike McCarthy was only half-right.

From Washington Post

The earworm jingle that opens “The Beverly Hillbillies” TV show gets it only half-right, because here, “swimming pools” got decoupled from “movie stars” many decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times

Although SMA phenotypes vary widely, he gets a few crucial details wrong, or at best half-right, from the functions of the cough-assist to the disease’s progression to a desultory mention of such transformative drugs as Spinraza.

From Washington Post