half-hearted

a half-hearted attempt to do something lacks effort and enthusiasm I made a half-hearted attempt to start a conversation with him and then gave up.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Silvija	-	Croatian, Slovene
Beowulf	BAY-ə-woolf (English)	Anglo-Saxon Mythology
Aleksei	ah-lyek-SYAY (Russian), ah-leek-SYAY (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Daniel	['dænjəl]
Cunningham	['kʌniəm]
Na'amah	-	Biblical Hebrew