0 -- tamt; usikkert
He lamely apologized.
Desolation goes before us, and civilization lags slowly and lamely behind.
The verb first crops up in the 16th century (until then the word for 'walk lamely' had been hall, which now survives, barely, as an adjective).
This organisation has the advantage of being a highly respected national institution, known to be completely impartial and lamely staffed by voluntary helpers.
My expectation is that people who hold up their hands so lamely are unlikely to be re-elected.
He simply said rather lamely that it was right in principle that attention should be paid to certain needs.
Or will he stay lamely stuck on the fence?
They can only lamely repeat the statement that they must know to be untrue.
When we made it plain that it had never been otherwise and that this was on the record, he admitted, somewhat lamely, that he had been misled.
