Half-heartedly synonyms

She half-heartedly tried to twist around him to get away, squealing with mock fear as his arms captured her.

In the civil war between Sophia and Peter (August - September 1689), Golitsuin half-heartedly supported his mistress and shared her ruin.

At the peace of Utrecht, concluded in 1713, the interests of the Netherlands were but half-heartedly supported by the English plenipotentiaries, and the French were able to obtain far more favourable terms than they had the power to exact.

All these suspicions were in Luther's mind when he consented very half-heartedly to meet Zwingli at a conference to be held in Philip of Hesse's castle at Marburg.

The bill, thus steadily opposed and half-heartedly supported, made only slow progress; and at last it was withdrawn by its author.