She tried half-heartedly.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

One early car half-heartedly tried to run me down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vatican Rip]

And we're not going to do it half-heartedly, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2006] Reference

Bolton, though, are half-heartedly on top at present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bolton Wanderers v Birmingham City - as it happened] Reference

Since he had to cheat, he cheated, but half-heartedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret has Scruples]

Laura put out her tongue at him, but only half-heartedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bones Will Keep]

"I've got a plan that might work," said Tom half-heartedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabotage in Space] Reference

She smiled half-heartedly, lightly touched Torrey's arm again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hearing]

Williams started half-heartedly to shove at the men nearest him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greylorn] Reference

And then when they finally do, and he apologized half-heartedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2008] Reference

He made a motion of his hand, half-heartedly inviting her to enter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

"She ought to go to school, Madge," argued Mrs. Curtis half-heartedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference

"Do you reckon hit'd do me any good?" she questioned then, half-heartedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

In fact, the captain only half-heartedly urged his players to make a rally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Strong, Patrol Leader] Reference

She kicked the bull-terrier, who rather half-heartedly snapped back at her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Fool]

Two little words, usually said half-heartedly, for the sole purpose of what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [My family puts the FUN in dysfunctional!] Reference

Araminta got to her feet with the rest of them, and applauded half-heartedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreaming Void]

She's also half-heartedly letting images of her neighbor Sam pass in and out.    From Wordnik.com.  [independent lives] Reference

They half-heartedly blamed the political parties for draining the events of drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digital Dispatches] Reference

However, we continued, half-heartedly on his part, to shove our way on into the wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference

I paddled around a little, half-heartedly, and then I found myself being pulled under!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place so Foreign] Reference

Caught, Ted tried half-heartedly to make denial, but the effort was scarcely a success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference

Little started up, too, but half-heartedly, then sat down to follow the action of his friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference

  She seemed content enough to have me up there, bucking only occasionally and half-heartedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body of a Cow] Reference

"You can't do any stuntwork half-heartedly," intones Martin as I half-heartedly prepare to jump.    From Wordnik.com.  [The fall guy: a day at stuntman school] Reference

Now the little creature just sat there, trembling and rubbing half-heartedly against Dal's neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Surgeon] Reference

He ran the dustmop around the edges and flicked a duster half-heartedly over several table-tops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Went Underground]

She came just in time to catch Donald in the act of half-heartedly trying to conceal a deep yawn.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

Rather half-heartedly he made a circuit of the courtyard and mimed the taking up of a collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Fool]

But I half-heartedly entertained both thoughts at least once a day for the last couple of months.    From Wordnik.com.  [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference

John's arms closed about her in a relaxed sort of way, and patting her head half-heartedly, he said again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

   "She can help it," Lorrie argues half-heartedly, trying to out-do herself and make her mother smile again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Mothers] Reference

  Once in a blue moon she'll put on an ermine stole before climbing into bed, but only reluctantly, half-heartedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Night of Furversion] Reference

You know, if you go at a thing half-heartedly you are sure to lose out, but if you say 'I will,' you cannot fall down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Road] Reference

Ian would come over and sit in the corner, not saying anything, cracking his whip half-heartedly, without a lot of wrist action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Making Love to Monsters] Reference

Between its great white pillars, flaking paint and half-heartedly confessing their woodland genesis, stood a tall young man, bareheaded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

Which means the war, half-heartedly endorsed by much but hardly all of the U.N., will probably begin late this winter or early in spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Lives: Plenty Of Challenges Await Bush] Reference