Adjective : a halfhearted attempt to work. From Dictionary.com.
DeFarge, in her brisk, acerbic way, watches him pace and yanks him out of his halfheartedness and encroaching depression. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Sighing for Versailles] Reference
But I do not fear the word rupture — rupture with habits of thought, with ideas, with behaviors of the past that have prevented us from advancing, from grasping the future between our two arms … I want rupture with intellectual conformity … I want rupture with halfheartedness, I want rupture with conservatism, I want rupture with immobility. From Wordnik.com. [Un Homme in Full] Reference
What struck me was their halfheartedness in the effort!. From Wordnik.com. [RVABlogs] Reference
Unfortunately the navy leadership was itself infectedwith the spirit of halfheartedness. From Wordnik.com. [Mein Kampf]
The reason, however, for this disgraceful failure on the partof the state was not that it did not recognize the danger, but rather ina cowardice crying to high Heaven and the resultant halfheartedness of alldecisions and measures. From Wordnik.com. [Mein Kampf]
A further example of the halfheartedness and weakness ofthe leaders of pre-War Germany in meeting the most important vital questionsof the nation is the following: running parallel to the political, ethical, and moral contamination of the people, there had been for many years a noless terrible poisoning of the health of the national body. From Wordnik.com. [Mein Kampf]
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