Modifies a noun

• idea: However, they now look set to be kicked into the long grass along with other half-baked Government ideas like ID cards.

• plan: Not the fully costed, sensible document they promised, but a half-baked plan which would simply mean people paying more in the long-run.

• scheme: Who on Earth comes up with these half-baked schemes?

• theory: We must protest, however, when the half-baked theories of the lecture room are given to the world as firmly established truths.

• nonsense: Not a single missionary ham has called to brighten my days with any brand of half-baked nonsense.

• notion: We don't want some wooly half-baked notion like 'let's pretend ' shares.

Modifying Another Word

• often: He would listen courteously to representations from senior boys and girls, often half-baked and badly expressed.