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Moore: half-baked
 
hackneyed   the hackneyed environs of Hogwarts (Guardian blog)
 
half-baked   His answers were evasive, mantra-like platitudes and half-baked, baseless statements meant to resonate in the empty chambers of the minds of anyone who found him credible. Bonnie Greer on Nick Griffin, Oct 24 09, Times
 
half-baked   modernist sculptural mannerisms nicked from already half-baked Moores and Hepworths (Guardian, 21 February 2009)
 
half-digested gestural gimmicks    Allen Watsky on Jewish music
 
hamfisted   Gurn, a stolid Scotsman, has been spying on the amazing infatuation developing between James (betrothed to Effie) and a beautiful sylph, and is trying to spread the news with ham-fisted urgency." The Guardian
 
hand-wringing (liberal)

hanging baskety    
"the flagstone and decking, hanging baskety, towpathy canal sort of fashion so loved by town planners." Maureen Lipman Guardian September 16, 2005
 
harrumphing   Harrumphing boffins with comedy hair ... it's all terribly Theatre in Education. Sarah Dempster, Guardian July 16, 2007
 
hideous    Hideous Buildings Planned for Sheffield
 
high altitude (theorising, discussions)
 
high gibberish quotient    Jeremy Treglown
 
high-minded interpretive tinkering     on the part of jazz and classical musicians
 
hollowed out religious narratives translated into pseudo science     The Atheist Delusion John Gray Guardian Mar 15 08
 
horribly dressed in identical outfits     Elizabeth and Margaret as children Guardian July 21 07 Horribly dressed and mannered people who dared to discuss "social issues" and politics. Web
 
horrid (absolutely horrid)    The mullet, that horrid hairdo that won't die. Web
 
horrorific   Arrgghh... the tiger looks so alive!! Indeed these people had a strange, morbid, disturbing, horrorific taste... (Web comment on pix of animals stuffed and turned into furniture)
 
hovery Waiters at Gauthier Soho “a little hovery” Guardian Sept 10
 
humiliating: Watching sign-language interpreters translating & pantomiming humiliating teenage poetry live is hilariously awesome. @jesserobbins

hushed, Dimbledonian reverence   
Peter Wilby, Guardian Sept. 24 07