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• s  feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
  a halfhearted effort

• The cinematic trick can distract an audience, providing cover for weak or halfhearted acting.
• After a halfhearted effort with his first bull, he ran away from his second, playing it at arm's length, then tried to kill it too soon.
• Wang ignored their threats and entreaties, although he did attempt a halfhearted reconciliation later in the summer.

• half-hearted
• tepid
• lukewarm

News & Articles

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• Terps' final ACC year expected to be marked with awkwardness
  As they enter the 61st and final year of their partnership, Maryland and the Atlantic Coast Conference are like a newly divorced couple that is forced by circumstances to continue to live together and makes a halfhearted pledge to remain friends.        
  July 3, 2013 - Baltimore Sun
• Maryland's final year in ACC expected to be marked with awkward moments
  As they enter the 61st and final year of their partnership, Maryland and the Atlantic Coast Conference are like a newly divorced couple that is forced by circumstances to continue to live together and makes a halfhearted pledge to remain friends.
  July 3, 2013 - Baltimore Sun

Quotes

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• Lynne Abraham in USA Today
  Abraham said that although at least 55 children have died under the agency's watch, it has given only "lip service to halfhearted corrective action."
• President Bush in FOXNews
  When the United States and France say withdraw, we mean complete withdrawal, no halfhearted measures,Bush said in New Jersey.
• Bill Keller in USA Today
  Keller said the administration also argued "in a halfhearted way" that disclosure of the program "would lead terrorists to change tactics."