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[wshaffer]

Having the kind of day where I have to have a long, hard think about whether it is ever appropriate to use the term "half-assed" in a business email.

I decided not. I settled for just listing the things that had not been done that still needed to be done.

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[markgritter.livejournal.com]

I was going to speak up in defense of 'half-assed' but your comment makes clear there was a personal dimension, which I agree is inappropriate.

'features that never get beyond version one' was a phrase that I used recently to circumlocute around 'half-assed' but in retrospect the latter would have gotten the point across. 'uncompleted' just suggests it's not done yet, nobody knows what 'desultory' is, and 'half-baked' is equally insulting. So I think there are cases where 'half-assed' fits the bill.