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Meanings of half-baked in English

Foolish; totally unsound.

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Insufficiently cooked.

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The potatoes were hard, the beef was underdone, the pastry was heavy.
The Cathedral: A Novel
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I hate the Germans because they are underdone, they are red meat.
This Is the End
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Be particular about this, as underdone macaroni is not a pleasant dish.
The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed.
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They simply prescribed a dietary regimen of underdone meat and quinine wine.
The Fortune of the Rougons
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They might say of her, on the contrary, that she is underdone.
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Usage of half-baked in English
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He thought that giving it up was one of my half-baked ideas.
The Bent Twig
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Passing off a risky, half-baked gamble as growth strategy smacks of desperation.
Reuters
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Then the half-baked, tongue-tied fellow came over and gobbled at him eagerly.
Cow-Country
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For now, half-baked laws are a nuisance rather than a real drag.
Reuters
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The U.S. clampdown on tax-driven cross-border M&A should deter half-baked pharma deals.
Reuters
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Her name has been at the center of all those half-baked plots.
The lady elizabeth
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But some of the fixes-includingespecially the unsend feature-feelparticularly half-baked.
Wired
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They're at it again in Andrew Niccol's half-baked speculation on the information age.
The Irish Times
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Yet the Republicans didn't get where they are today by such half-baked timidity.
The Guardian
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It didn't take a professional historian to see that their case was half-baked.
The arms maker of berlin
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Another argument will be based on a half-baked notion of patriotism, he said.
Reuters
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Although housing is under-taxed in the UK, Labour's scheme is half-baked.
Reuters
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This was not some bumbling, half-baked attempt at universal health care.
Mutated
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The socialist philosophy that riots half-baked in your veins has passed me by.
Martin Eden
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I told them the feeble plan I'd half-baked inside of the gas station.
The Darkest Minds
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Don't ask me to co-sign on your half-baked, undercooked theories, Rook.
Naked Heat