Exempel på lamely

• "We have to get back," explained Denis lamely.

• He was often late home, lamely claiming he had been caught in a meeting.

• "Did you tell him to leave me alone?" - "I didn't get a chance," he said, rather lamely.

• 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.

• Details are not given and the story concludes somewhat lamely.

• Mutual is excluded from, or only lamely admitted to, many important markets.

• However, he says it rather lamely, and the confession obviously comes too late.

• Lamely began his career on mini tours.

• These accents lamely portray a mule walking.