lame
Example Sentences
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Bondi and her communications staff keep making lame excuses for the delay, which almost no one is buying.
From Salon
The family’s insecurity over this surged into view last week, when the alleged “ladies man” was photographed doing the lamest possible thing on New Year’s Eve: hanging out with his parents at Mar-a-Lago.
From Salon
Still, it’s nice to watch a movie together, even if it’s a lame movie.
From Literature
The hazard of a fancy crowd, of course, is that a fancy crowd is a blah crowd, which is standard at a Super Bowl, but lame for a World Cup.
A “lame duck” Fed chair may find it harder to muster the authority necessary to unite a fractured board.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
