Sentence examples for a half-baked plot from inspiring English sources

After Sally moves with her mother, grandmother, and older brother from New Jersey to Miami in order to help her sibling recover from nephritis, she becomes convinced that a ubiquitous old man in her family's building is Adolf Hitler in disguise and hatches a half-baked plot to unmask him.

Tiffany Jacobs and Alvina Leiba, a pair of 19-year-old women from Deltona, Fla., were arrested May 22 after their half-baked plot to rob a Pizza Hut delivery man for $40 worth of food failed.

Lundegaard hires two goons to kidnap his wife, hoping to squeeze a ransom from his rich father-in-law, only to have his half-baked plot collapse out of sheer amateurishness; by the end, we're watching one desperate fool shove another's corpse into a wood chipper.

PAGE A12 DENVER PLOT RAISES QUESTIONS An apparently half-baked plot by three Denver-area men to assassinate Senator Barack Obama on the basis of his race has highlighted the question of exactly what and whom to fear as Mr. Obama prepares to become the first black nominee for president from a major party.

If you care about privacy, like really believe in it, throwing your ideals out the window for a half-baked revenge plot isn't a very good look.

Churning out the same half-baked plots, week after week, month after month.

Detractors will point out that the plot is a half-baked series of clichés and that the characters are as psychologically deep as a puddle in the Gobi desert.

He cited a botched 1996 C.I.A. plot to overthrow President Saddam Hussein of Iraq: "We also had a half-baked Iraqi operation and sent a signal that we're not serious".

It was well organized, far from a half-baked operation.

Isn't that, um, a half-baked idea?

In the words of Devo, which has a half-baked original here: "Merry Something to You".