half-baked

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An' then," continued Horse Egan, for the peppery Major's peculiarities of speech and manner were as well known as his tanned face; "'an' then, ye dissolute, half-baked. putty-faced scum o' Connemara, if I find a man so much as lookin' confused, begad, I'll coort-martial the whole company.

It was most discomforting, because it reminded me of love; and I knew that I never could love this half-baked little barbarian.

some childish notions, a few half-baked sentiments, a lot of undigested beauty, a great black mass of ignorance, a heart filled to bursting with love, and an ambition as big as your love and as futile as your ignorance.

Erstwhile worth-while fun and stunts seemed no longer worth while; and it was a torment to listen to the insipidities and stupidities of women, to the pompous, arrogant sayings of the little half-baked men.

He believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, but which is peculiarly attractive to a half-baked mind.

YOU report Sir David Trippier as saying that the proposals for an elected regional assembly, which will be put to a referendum in the autumn,are ``a half-baked dog's dinner''.

The powers that be cannot push forward with half-baked political experiments such as congestion charging when there are no other facilities available to the commuting public to use.

So, on the grounds that ridicule from the educated chattering classes will bring about a swift demise of building materials-style 'materiality' among the half-baked. will 'blob architecture' similarly fade from our language?

If she's evasive, offers a half-baked excuse or acts like you're the problem, it's confirmed.

What's gone, though, is the mad rush to throw money at half-baked business models.

Then again, perhaps we will concoct another half-baked. wallet-emptying reason for backing another team.

It is, however, a cautionary tale for executives signing on to half-baked command-and-control market hybrids flying under the flag of free markets.