halfheartedly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
26
Words With Friends
25
Letters
13

Definition of halfheartedly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. With little enthusiasm or interest.
    “Near-synonyms: unenthusiastically, lukewarmly”
    “This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber, but half-heartedly, I thought, and with half an eye to their own danger all the time, while the rest stood irresolute on the road.”
    ““Oh, but I feel, and particularly just now—it’s your fault,” he said, pressing her hand—“that all that doesn’t count. I do it in a way halfheartedly. If I could care for all that as I care for you!... Instead of that, I do it in these days like a task that is set me.””
    “Extreme rhetoric often landed like another genre of Internet content—something to be halfheartedly consumed, laughed at, scrolled past, and then forgotten.”

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Etymology

From halfhearted + -ly.

Words you can make from halfheartedly

200+ playable · top: HALFHEARTED (21 pts)

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9-letter words

3 words

8-letter words

18 words

7-letter words

49 words

6-letter words

114 words

5-letter words

15 words

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