How to Use half-baked in a Sentence

half-baked

adjective
  • Isn’t there someone in his camp who can tell him these jokes are half-baked?
    — William Earl, Variety, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Even after four years in the oven, the might still be coming out half-baked.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023
  • To have two or three people from the movie come into this world looks a little half-baked.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Many critics dismissed it as too frustrating and half-baked though.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Sure, his lyrics are half-baked, but that’s fine because there is so much emotion everywhere else.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2024
  • These Bruins were half-baked — great offense, dreadful defense.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • My Memorial Day weekend plans are half-baked, and my luggage set is nowhere near packed.
    — Halie Lesavage, harpersbazaar.com, 18 May 2023
  • There has been a plot against Sisi, in the form of a half-baked military coup, and George is right in the thick of it.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2025
  • Not because of a convoluted plot or half-baked characters.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Many were half-baked at best and designed for clicks, comments and likes — the insistent demand of the internet age.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • References to British colonialism were also half-baked, some critics said at the time.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The attacks often felt rather simple in scope, half-baked and frustrating to deal with, with luck driving my success far more than skill.
    — Sarah Thwaites, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2025
  • There's no speaker, no Google Assistant, and the fitness features feel half-baked.
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Beyond that, the software experience feels half-baked, and not fully tailored for this new hardware type.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The Rainbow Tribe was ambitious, idealistic, loving, a bit half-baked, and far ahead of its time.
    — Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Huerta is beyond worthy of recognition, but this section felt rushed and half-baked, the photographs of Huerta stiff and posed.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 14 May 2024
  • Some of the app's settings and tools are half-baked, and their Bluetooth LE Audio support isn’t perfect.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2026
  • If that hasn’t been done, the AI will likely try to generate code, but the results will probably be half-baked and extremely sketchy.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The pita was toasty but soft, arriving half-baked and frozen from Angel’s Bakery in Israel and finished fresh in the oven at the restaurant.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • All necessary praise aside, one of the great joys of tracing Taylor Swift's arc is seeing her sound bleed across genres, from country and pop to (half-baked) hip-hop and folk and back.
    — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • In this promising but ultimately half-baked gory bit of business, a killer (Dacre Montgomery) restages scenes of torture and murder inspired by that film for his serial killing.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Even if the products such as the agent mode in Perplexity and Atlas feel half-baked, the hope is that getting into the market early will collect more data than their competitors.
    — Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The mental health advice that is generated by GPT-5 could be off-target or half-baked (of course, this is always possible, for all LLMs, in general).
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025

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