feebly

Barkat offered, feebly, that the policy had been mistaken and that everything would be investigated after the war.

“These elections must be rerun,” a frail-looking Tepic told the crowd, waving feebly from the stage and saying she doesn’t have the strength to make a longer speech.

Father Drozdov kicked feebly, trying to feel for the ground, and his face turned the color of a sliced beet.

In a letter to a newspaper in Massachusetts, where he lived, he defended himself feebly:

Hobbled by a lack of visual oomph or verbal sparkle, “A Little White Lie” pokes feebly at impostor syndrome and writerly insecurity.