quarter-heartedly

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English

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"I tried to play the game—whole-heartedly at first, then half-heartedly, then quarter-heartedly."
"Alfonso despises Annetta, Annetta despises Alfonso, and they continue to court each other quarter-heartedly."
"My ex, Nick, an introvert, danced with me once in five years: quarter-heartedly, for thirty-eight seconds, at his best friend's wedding, and only after I'd threatened to embarrass him by dancing on my own if he didn't."

From quarter + heartedly, by analogy with halfheartedly.

more quarter-heartedly (comparative) most quarter-heartedly (superlative)

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