What's the difference between halfheartedly and indifferently?

Halfheartedly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While all my other questions have been answered, albeit halfheartedly, this one was not fudged or spun or mangled, but simply ignored.
  • (2) Murdoch also fired a shot at the New York Times – a bête noire of Murdoch's and the Journal's main rival – by saying its paywall plans were halfhearted and needed to be more restrictive.
  • (3) A slice, a sliver of malcontents, each one waving an arm halfheartedly; they looked like strap-hangers in a rush hour train.
  • (4) What are they to think, for that matter, when the banks have been exposed as wrecking the economy and are required to do no more than mouth a halfhearted apology in order to carry on as before?
  • (5) Other offences cited include halfhearted applause as Kim rose to power and Jang's "reckless" instruction to security forces to erect a granite block with Kim's signature in a shaded corner rather than in front of their headquarters.
  • (6) Here the prime minister was more halfhearted, perhaps half-baked, calculating he was giving enough to keep a year-old peace process with the PKK guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers party alive, while not conceding too much.
  • (7) It's not as if there was a shortage of things to mock during Python's 70s heyday, but a couple of gentle digs at the class structure or organised religion isn't satire: these halfhearted swipes are as weak as they are cynical.
  • (8) His replacement, the eloquent if unconvincing Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba , made a halfhearted attempt at rallying support to his left, but to no avail.
  • (9) With his tepid, halfhearted endorsement today,” she said, “Ryan has backed away from his own criticisms of Trump’s dangerous, divisive campaign, bowed down, kissed the ring, and conceded that Trump is the leader of the Republican Party.” Ryan later elaborated on his change of heart in an interview with the Associated Press , saying he needed to reach a “comfort level” with Trump and had not been offered any deal in exchange for his approval.

Indifferently


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
  • (2) Strains showing occasional antagonism at a particular proportion of concentrations of the test combination, were found to only be indifferent when the mean index of the fractional inhibition concentration of all checkerboard combinations was calculated.
  • (3) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (4) "The disrespect embodied in these apparent mass violations of the law is part of a larger pattern of seeming indifference to the constitution that is deeply troubling to millions of Americans in both political parties," he said.
  • (5) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
  • (6) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (7) We know this system doesn't work – and yet we prop it up with ignorance and indifference.
  • (8) The Tip Deflection Test involved securing the lead at 45 degrees at the indifferent electrode and applying a force to deflect the tip 5 mm.
  • (9) A sine wave current stimulus, applied between electrodes placed about one ear and an indifferent electrode, produced a cyclical sway predominantly in the coronal plane.
  • (10) I watched about 90 shows in three weeks, with an unfavourable ratio of good to bad to indifferent.
  • (11) The ghastliness of this American shock jock, who, though still obscure to most Britons, is said to be the third most popular radio host in the States, perhaps explains why news of his continued exclusion from the UK was greeted last week with utter indifference.
  • (12) In 20 patients a water-soluble contrast medium (Urovison for infusion 30%, 500 ml) was injected after addition of indifferent infusion solutions, or the contrast medium was mixed with the ascitic fluid remaining in the cavity after abdominal puncture of patients with ascites.
  • (13) When the initial-link reinforcement rate was lower than the terminal-link rate, preference converged toward indifference.
  • (14) In this study was tested the prediction that approach-oriented wrestlers should perform better than indifferent- and avoidance-oriented ones.
  • (15) On a macro level, a party that is already thoroughly militarized and corporatized – and largely indifferent to Main Street whenever it poses a conflict with Wall Street – offers little alternative to the other party that already celebrates that.
  • (16) Even if Honda manage to improve their woeful power unit and McLaren make improvements to their indifferent car, it is difficult to see the team running better than mid-table next term.
  • (17) He says it is not for him to say what Russia should do but “it can not be indifferent to the destiny of such a big partner as Ukraine”.
  • (18) What to say to the children who went to a pop concert and left to find their waiting parents blown apart by the hate and callous indifference in the foyer?
  • (19) The best results were observed in hebephrenic forms and depressive syndroms during the illness; in these indications, carpipramine exerts a clear psychomotor stimulating activity which is useful in decreasing indifference, apathy and ideomotor slowness.
  • (20) In general, the combination of quinolone antibiotics with other drugs tested against staphylococci, enterococci, and anaerobic species has shown indifference.