Half-assedly

adv, slang

adv, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a half-assed manner; poorly or incompetently. slang, vulgar

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From half-assed + -ly.

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