halfheartedness
nounEtymology From halfhearted + -ness.
1
The characteristic of being halfhearted.
- But the halfheartedness of his acquiescence is instructive. This is the closest he has ever come to a betrayal — waffling on a cherished myth — despite repeatedly failing to deliver on so much of his supposedly radical political program.2025 July 20, Matthew Walther, “Sorry, This Epstein Stuff Isn’t Going to Hurt Trump”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2025: