Usually means: Done with minimal effort, care.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word half-assed:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. half-assed: Merriam-Webster
  2. half-assed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. half-assed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. half-assed, half-assed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Half-Assed, half-assed: Wordnik
  6. half-assed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. half-assed: Wiktionary
  8. half-assed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. half-assed: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. half-assed: Dictionary.com
  11. half-assed: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. half-assed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. half-assed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half-assed: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. half-assed, half-assed: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)

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▸ adjective:  (slang, sometimes considered vulgar) Poorly or incompetently done; desultory.

Similar:
quarter-assed, slack-handed, otiose, quick-and-dirty, poorlyish, perfunctory, half-finished, drive-by, inartful, rushed, more...

Opposite:
wholehearted, thorough, complete, conscientious
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Similar:
quarter-assed, slack-handed, otiose, quick-and-dirty, poorlyish, perfunctory, half-finished, drive-by, inartful, rushed, more...

Opposite:
wholehearted, thorough, complete, conscientious



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