as in stupid
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
he's always got some half-baked "solution" to a difficult, complex problem
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Recent Examples of half-baked
Campaigns are aspirational, filled with half-baked proposals designed to send a message rather than establish a set of solid governing priorities.
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Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Slow Horses’s success is not an Apple TV+ thing, either — Apple shows with longer runways like Ted Lasso and For All Mankind have had just as uneven and half-baked seasons as long-running series from other outlets.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
Just an hour earlier, this would’ve sounded like half-baked Zen.
—Johannes Lichtman, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2024
Sure, his lyrics are half-baked, but that’s fine because there is so much emotion everywhere else.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2024
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Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Slow Horses’s success is not an Apple TV+ thing, either — Apple shows with longer runways like Ted Lasso and For All Mankind have had just as uneven and half-baked seasons as long-running series from other outlets.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
Just an hour earlier, this would’ve sounded like half-baked Zen.
—Johannes Lichtman, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2024
Sure, his lyrics are half-baked, but that’s fine because there is so much emotion everywhere else.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for half-baked
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The big choices characters do make are all almost incomprehensibly stupid.Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Nobody directing people and stupid mazes with limited entrances.Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
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The San Francisco 49ers would be foolish to trade Nick Bosa, but that's exactly what a California politician wants.Ryan Morik, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2024
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The authors concluded that any attempt to create a synthetic substance to replace the mud — something Major League Baseball has explored — would be foolish.Evan Bush, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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In this show, everyone has their distinct personalities — Reneé as Leighton is sassy and dry and Pauline as Kimberly is sweet and a little silly, for example.Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2024
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Here was this band of rebellious and silly kids in bright clothes rapping their asses off.Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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After lightly chiding these gents for two movies, director Michael Winterbottom finally takes the knives out and begins to punish them, a decision that results in two late scenes that border on sociopathic and culminates in an unimaginably absurd ending that refuses to let Coogan off the hook.David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
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To envision European unity without the United States—as the authors attempt to do—is therefore absurd. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS O’Brien and Stringer try to address, in a practical way, the hard security questions Europe would face if abandoned by Washington.Sumantra Maitra, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
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Gone are the days of hours-long lines on Thanksgiving night, of a mad rush at midnight openings, where people spar for 80% off winter coats and flat-screen TVs.Keely Doll, The Courier-Journal, 29 Nov. 2024
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Crowe, with his piercing visage and commanding presence, had help from Joaquin Phoenix as the mad emperor-in-waiting, Commodus.Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Tauruses will go crazy for something chic, functional, and soft to the touch.Meghan Rose, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2023
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Before getting into the chaos of episode 5, that episode 4 cliff hanger was crazy.Calie Schepp, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
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Too many young people are making idiotic short-term financial decisions that hamper long-term success.Chandler Dean, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2023
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Beyond the Lungs Two other cardiac cases impressed me — and blew away the idiotic notion that young people are immune to COVID-19.Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2020
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Your voice is insane.Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com, al, 4 Apr. 2023
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But obviously winning the grand jury prize was insane.Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
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