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
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State parks plan was ‘half-baked,’ DeSantis says.
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Emily L Mahoney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2024
Campaigns are aspirational, filled with half-baked proposals designed to send a message rather than establish a set of solid governing priorities.
—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
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Emily L Mahoney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2024
Campaigns are aspirational, filled with half-baked proposals designed to send a message rather than establish a set of solid governing priorities.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for half-baked
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For the people stupid enough to have trusted a midwit career bureaucrat as unscrupulous as President Joe Biden, there’s a sixth stage just before acceptance: delusion.Becket Adams, National Review, 8 Dec. 2024
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Wild Card with Rachel Martin Issa Rae on the belief that gets her through 'stupid mistakes and bad decisions' Lithgow: More.Rachel Martin, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
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Stated simply, the policy errors made with regard to money were uniquely foolish.John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Premature predictions of renewal would be foolish and, as Howe continually stressed, Newcastle cannot allow one strong outing to be followed by another meek one.Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Packed with silly hijinks, this 2004 comedy also stars Kristin Chenoweth and Kristin Davis.Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Staff take part in silly skits and showcase rare albums that have not been digitized from the station's giant record collection.Meira Gebel, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
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But the series, like the film, shows that vampires are also multidimensional — vulnerable, emotional, funny, absurd — and completely out of place in the modern world.Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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Photo: Their lives often appear dramatic and borderline absurd.Daisy Jones, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2024
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Idiot glee is a kind of sheer joy at the mad fact of the world.Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Dec. 2024
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But neither doctors nor group therapy can see beyond a confused and maybe slightly mad person.Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 6 Dec. 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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The Republican and right-wing reaction is just insane.Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
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“Half-baked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/half-baked. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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