half-assed
(slang, vulgar) or incompetently done; desultory.
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Half-assed reconstruction + Later 19th century conciliatory consensus among white people in the the north and south that the Confederate cause was honorable and only indirectly related to slavery = Kayfabe histori…
THE REALEST BITCH IN THIS COLLAB please dunk on this half-assed god king
i'm cycling through these emotions every time i'm looking into the work that's been done, and it's either all half-assed or not even done at all even though i told them to do it.......
After he committed 150+ well-documented impeachable offenses doing those two tiny half-assed charades was a fucking joke. Nobody made any real effort to get a conviction. Pelosi was fiercely opposed to impeachment t…
The longest 6 minutes of my life. It's like watching a kid present the project he half-assed just to get credit. I'm also 90% sure he just keeps checking his phone throughout the interview.
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(slang, vulgar) or incompetently done; desultory.
“THE REALEST BITCH IN THIS COLLAB please dunk on this half-assed god king”
“i'm cycling through these emotions every time i'm looking into the work that's been done, and it's either all half-assed or not even done at all even though i told them to do it.......”
“After he committed 150+ well-documented impeachable offenses doing those two tiny half-assed charades was a fucking joke. Nobody made any real effort to get a conviction. Pelosi was fiercely opposed to impeachment the whole time.”
a half-assed attempt at something
“Half-assed reconstruction + Later 19th century conciliatory consensus among white people in the the north and south that the Confederate cause was honorable and only indirectly related to slavery = Kayfabe historiography”
— Bluesky· May 2026“THE REALEST BITCH IN THIS COLLAB please dunk on this half-assed god king”
— Bluesky· May 2026“i'm cycling through these emotions every time i'm looking into the work that's been done, and it's either all half-assed or not even done at all even though i told them to do it.......”
— Bluesky· May 2026“After he committed 150+ well-documented impeachable offenses doing those two tiny half-assed charades was a fucking joke. Nobody made any real effort to get a conviction. Pelosi was fiercely opposed to impeachment the whole time.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The longest 6 minutes of my life. It's like watching a kid present the project he half-assed just to get credit. I'm also 90% sure he just keeps checking his phone throughout the interview.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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