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
Even with Conrad sitting right there at the gate, Isabel Conklin followed through on her half-baked plan to fly to Paris in the middle of the night, and has suddenly become like 150 percent more likable, especially in juxtaposition to her new European friends, who all seem staunchly awful.
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Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
At work instead is a kind of half-baked feminist phrenology.
—Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
The show follows a half-baked film major (Settel) from LA, who is sent to NYC to stay with- and make a documentary about- his uncle (Feitelberg), a supposedly ultra-suc-cessful Broadway actor.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
Would a half-baked story really have given our species a big enough advantage?
—Madeleine Beekman
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
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Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
At work instead is a kind of half-baked feminist phrenology.
—Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
The show follows a half-baked film major (Settel) from LA, who is sent to NYC to stay with- and make a documentary about- his uncle (Feitelberg), a supposedly ultra-suc-cessful Broadway actor.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
Would a half-baked story really have given our species a big enough advantage?
—Madeleine Beekman
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for half-baked
Adjective
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Jimmy Kimmel said something stupid and should apologize.—
Jesse Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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Yeah, stupid s--- like this apparently is gonna keep happening for the next three years.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The pattern of blaming star players, whether Cristiano Ronaldo or Marcus Rashford, is looking foolish, and the side has plummeted in form.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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That’s penny wise, not pour foolish.—
David Dickstein,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Mea Culpa is Perry at his most knowingly silly, and a throwback to erotic thrillers of decades past.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Sep. 2025
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For every community of mass-shooter fandoms, there is another that is silly, joyous, productive, or totally harmless.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Larsen makes Didi’s absurd actions feel credible, something a woman frustrated with her own life would do, in haste, on behalf of another.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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Tim Dollar, a Kansas City attorney who represented the family of one of Biscari’s crash victims, said the union’s argument that Biscari was disciplined unfairly compared to other firefighters was absurd.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Then recently playing Forest Hills Stadium in New York was just insane to me.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
19 Sep. 2025
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Even after an insane freshman year, they’re not used to coming up with plans on their own.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Awards are both mad and lovely.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
16 Sep. 2025
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And of course, mad love and respect to Adam Yauch, Oscilloscope’s co-founder, filmmaker and Beastie Boy forever.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Years later narratives about colonization or slavery or the crazy suffragettes always centre on the light and the justice these people fought for.—
Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
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Oh, and that rookie receiver with the two crazy catches?—
Christian Romo,
Freep.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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That’s just idiotic foreign policy.—
Jamie McIntyre,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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The Chiefs open with the J’s Friday night in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is patently idiotic, but at least the loser can blame it on the bossa nova.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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