Usage of "half-baked"

Foolish; totally unsound.

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Insufficiently cooked.

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Examples for "underdone"

Examples for "underdone"

The potatoes were hard, the beef was underdone, the pastry was heavy. 
 The Cathedral: A Novel 

I hate the Germans because they are underdone, they are red meat. 
 This Is the End 

Be particular about this, as underdone macaroni is not a pleasant dish. 
 The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed. 

They simply prescribed a dietary regimen of underdone meat and quinine wine. 
 The Fortune of the Rougons 

They might say of her, on the contrary, that she is underdone. 
 Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol... 

Ús de half-baked en anglès

He thought that giving it up was one of my half-baked ideas. 
 The Bent Twig 

Passing off a risky, half-baked gamble as growth strategy smacks of desperation. 
 Reuters 

Then the half-baked, tongue-tied fellow came over and gobbled at him eagerly. 
 Cow-Country 

For now, half-baked laws are a nuisance rather than a real drag. 
 Reuters 

The U.S. clampdown on tax-driven cross-border M&A should deter half-baked pharma deals. 
 Reuters 

Her name has been at the center of all those half-baked plots. 
 The lady elizabeth 

But some of the fixes-includingespecially the unsend feature-feelparticularly half-baked. 
 Wired 

They're at it again in Andrew Niccol's half-baked speculation on the information age. 
 The Irish Times 

Yet the Republicans didn't get where they are today by such half-baked timidity. 
 The Guardian 

It didn't take a professional historian to see that their case was half-baked. 
 The arms maker of berlin 

Another argument will be based on a half-baked notion of patriotism, he said. 
 Reuters 

Although housing is under-taxed in the UK, Labour's scheme is half-baked. 
 Reuters 

This was not some bumbling, half-baked attempt at universal health care. 
 Mutated 

The socialist philosophy that riots half-baked in your veins has passed me by. 
 Martin Eden 

I told them the feeble plan I'd half-baked inside of the gas station. 
 The Darkest Minds 

Don't ask me to co-sign on your half-baked, undercooked theories, Rook. 
 Naked Heat 

Significats de half-baked en anglès