half-assedly

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English

Etymology

From half-assed +‎ -ly.

Adverb

half-assedly (comparative more half-assedly, superlative most half-assedly)

  1. In a half-assed manner; poorly or incompetently
    • 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club:
      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.