Half-hearted

Half-hearted cutbacks that can't save money leave JAL's rehabilitation in doubt.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

He makes no half-hearted attempts.

There is nothing worse than doing something in a half-hearted manner.

In order to distract the population from their true intrigues, the politicians devised some half-hearted reforms.