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Half-baked   /hæf-beɪkt/   Listen
Half-baked

adjective
1.
Foolish; totally unsound.  Synonyms: crazy, screwball, softheaded.  "Half-baked ideas" , "A screwball proposal without a prayer of working"
2.
Insufficiently cooked.  Synonym: underdone.






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"Half-baked" Quotes from Famous Books



... different sizes. The finest quality of brick was yellow, approaching to our Stourbridge or fire-brick; another very hard kind was blue, approaching to black; the commoner and coarser sorts were pink or red, and these were sometimes, though rarely, but half-baked, in which case they were weak and friable. The shape was always square; and the dimensions varied between twelve and fourteen inches for the length and breadth, and between three and four inches for the thickness. ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon • George Rawlinson

... her second move. A new interne had come into the house, and was going through the process of learning that from a senior at the medical school to a half-baked junior interne is a long step back. He had to endure the good-humored contempt of the older men, the patronizing instructions of nurses ...
— K • Mary Roberts Rinehart



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