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Luke Croker, a skateboarder who is sponsored by Krooked-a skateboard brand founded/owned by skateboarding pioneer Mark Gonzales-was a long-time friend of Marnell and explained: "He didn't half-arse anything."

And don’t approach your planning in a half-ass way either.

You want a half-ass chance of getting through alive, pay attention.

My columns continued to be good, but the paper itself was half-ass.

You always did have a temper and bad manners, half-ass.

Forget about it, she told him, but somehow his half-ass apology made her feel better.

A lot of shops half-ass the things they do.

To go through all that and then risk killing yourself with a lot of half-ass melodramatics.

At first she kind of half-ass tries to fight me off, but pretty soon she gets with it, see.

What kind of backward, half-ass pilot takes off without checking the radar?

Doing my professional best to make this ditzy, half-ass spy job work.

I don't associate with these half-ass simps who think they can run on the fast track.

They wouldn't let a cop go out on the street with a half-ass gun, would they?

Now wasn't that a half-ass thing to do when all we have to defend ourselves with is slingshots?

I ended up in a broken band with a half-ass enthusiasm towards finishing a project already started.

All I knew about you, you were some half-ass broad throws her husband's clothes out the window and takes off.

You boys have rushed in here half-ass prepared.

The Barracuda was faster than any half-ass salvage sub in the water.

Seriously, Ken, what kind of a half-ass study can I get done without the manpower?

So do the usual kind of half-ass study and give them the report they want, when they want it.

I like to think I'm a half-ass composer.

Maybe a few half-ass scientists like you.

We've got two half-ass wizards of our own.

You'll ditch the idea of legal representation and try to fight Cypress Oil with your own half-ass methods.