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lamely, adv.|ˈleɪmlɪ|
[f. lame a. + -ly2.]
In a lame manner; with halting steps or limbs; haltingly; imperfectly, defectively, inefficiently.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. i. 97 Val. She enjoin'd me, To write some lines to one she loves... Speed. Are they not lamely writt? 1594― Rich. III, i. i. 22 Deform'd, vnfinish'd.. scarse halfe made vp, And that so lamely and vnfashionable, That dogges barke at me, as I halt by them. 1599Life More in Wordsw. Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 94 This booke..is translated..into English absurdly and lamely. 1614T. Adams in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. lxxi. 18 A comedy that..goes lamely off in the last act, finds no applause. 1679Dryden Troylus & Cr. Pref., So lamely is it left to us, that it is not divided into Acts. 1709Steele & Swift Tatler No. 66 ⁋1 They who speak gracefully, are very lamely represented in having their Speeches read or repeated by unskilful People. 1739Hume Hum. Nature (1874) I. Introd. 305 Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iv. iv, Halting lamely along, thou noticest next Bishop Talleyrand-Perigord. 1885R. W. Dixon Hist. Ch. Eng. III. 201 Cardwell lamely tries to screen Ridley. |