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half-arsed

adjective

  1. slang.
    incompetent; inept; badly organized
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Co-host Phillip Schofield also lent his support and even took aim at the "half-arsed" response of Arts Council England, whose latest allocation of government funding has put a big question mark over ENO's future.

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“I regret that I kept going until that late in the day. It would have been a really half-arsed show, and I can’t do that. People will see straight through me up on the stage and know I didn’t want to be doing it. I’ve never done anything like that in my life, and I’m not going to start now.”

It would have been a really half-arsed show and I can't do that.

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I’ll level with you: it was, at best, a half-arsed analogy, I didn’t give it that much thought.

As this was just going to be a little thing, and about swimsuits, I thought I could get away with taking notes in my half-arsed shorthand.

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