feebly

The squash wiggles, feebly, as if injured.

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.

In a half-based aside, they feebly argued that “the public can reasonably understand” Chutkan’s opinions to “derive from extrajudicial sources” rather than courtroom proceedings.

For now, perhaps Kavanaugh deserves credit for wielding his power so feebly.