half-assed

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

I think that HALF-ASSED means just 'stupid'. Of course, "your remark is 
stupid" seems to entail 'I don't agree with your remark', but I wouldn't want 
to say that that is what it 'means'.

For years my father refused to fix the broken toilet seat in the guest 
bathroom because he liked to say that he kept it for his half-assed inlaws.


In a message dated 3/11/03 9:41:16 AM, jdespres at MERRIAM-WEBSTER.COM writes:


> On 11 Mar 2003, at 8:46, James A. Landau wrote:
> 
> > I for one would rather read Barry Popik's complaints than your half-assed
> > political comments.
> >
> >       - James A. Landau
> 
> Now this, I think, offers evidence of a meaning of "half-assed" which
> has gone badly underreported in dictionaries.  I believe it means
> something like "I don't agree with it."
> 
> Joanne
>