HALF-HEARTEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-heartedly mean? 

• HALF-HEARTEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb HALF-HEARTEDLY has 1 sense:

1. without enthusiasm; in a half-hearted manner

  Familiarity information: HALF-HEARTEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-HEARTEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without enthusiasm; in a half-hearted manner

Context example:

she tried half-heartedly

Pertainym:

halfhearted (feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm)

 Context examples 

This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber, but half-heartedly, I thought, and with half an eye to their own danger all the time, while the rest stood irresolute on the road.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)