Halfhearted is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HALFHEARTED in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• lacking heart, spirit, or interest
• without enthusiasm or energy
• feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm

Words related to HALFHEARTED

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Words that contain HALFHEARTED

halfheartedly26 halfheartedness25 halfheartednesses27

How to use HALFHEARTED in a sentence

• A few of us had climbed some of the hills in a half-hearted curiosity, but from their summits saw nothing to tempt weariness.
• CHAPTER XXII Another Side of Bruce Ever since his earliest youth, Bruce had always had, at intervals, some vague, vain, half-hearted entanglement with a woman.
• I went to the piano and played something in a listless, half-hearted way.
• The severest criticism he will ever pass upon her will be a half-hearted wish that she should exhibit the best side of herself more consistently.
• He is always full of enthusiasm, and never does anything in a half-hearted way.
• Leo, I fancy, was always more than half-hearted about the facade.
• There will be no half-hearted work in such an hour.
• David himself made common cause with his brother, and the spirit of resistance spread among the half-hearted Cymry of the south.
• He was half-hearted at first, but he found out something.
• He mumbled fearfully to himself, and took not the slightest interest in the half-hearted attempts to read the mystery.
• Absurd as it is, Society, which is founded on the family, is to-day giving only perfunctory and half-hearted attention to the family.
• To be sure, this note-book habit means labor, but remember that more speeches have been spoiled by half-hearted preparation than by lack of talent.
• It was early shown that the enemy had not undertaken the war in a half-hearted manner.
• Why the enemy should have allowed so long an interval to elapse since their half-hearted effort of 9th November, is difficult to imagine.
• By this I do not mean to imply that the Austrians never shell it, for they do, but only in a desultory, half-hearted fashion.
• Allegiance to the Faith cannot be partial and half-hearted.
• There, I gather strength as I advance, the warships cannot pursue, and I can choose my own positions to meet the half-hearted forces that Dom Miguel will collect to oppose me.
• He had his Republican opponents to reckon with, and the Democrats in the Senate disliked him very much, and gave him a feeble and half-hearted support.
• Outside, the galleys were making half-hearted demonstrations against the English anchorage, but they were easily kept at bay.
• In some cities there had been rioting, but half-hearted and easily controlled.
• Nevertheless, she really tried, in a perhaps half-hearted way, to withdraw her personality into the mist.
• He fancied that he was one of those natures which cannot be half-hearted, which cannot easily mingle, arrange, portion out, take just so much of this and so much of that.
• He made a half-hearted attempt to seize her hand, and then remembering his position, sighed deeply and looked straight before him.
• In the secret of her wise heart she denominated all the earnest people at Chautauqua fanatics, and all the half-hearted people hypocrites.
• At any rate, I got only a half-hearted consent from her that I might start.
• But Stuart was immersed in that too common mixture of law and politics in which the former jealous mistress is apt to take the traditional revenge upon her half-hearted suitor.
• He did not disguise the fact of his own half-hearted search for the woman he had deserted.
• A half-hearted consent was given, but at the appointed time the river was in flood and the attempt was postponed.
• There is a new philosophy of doubts and delicacies, of dallyings and refinements, of half-hearted lookers-on, desiring and fearing some new order of the world.
• They will have no half-hearted admiration, and scout him who tries to speak of Dickens as of an artist not flawless, no less than they scorn him who cannot read Dickens at all.
• Even the Republican newspapers were listless and halfhearted.
• The voice of the people is duly represented, but it is a very weak and halfhearted voice.

Similar words containing HALFHEART without suffix ed

halfheartedly26 halfheartedness25 halfheartednesses27

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