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Definition of Lamely
1. Adverb. In a weak and unconvincing manner. "`I don't know, Edward,' she answered lamely"
Definition of Lamely
1. adv. In a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as, to walk lamely; a figure lamely drawn.
Definition of Lamely
1. Adverb. In the manner of one who is lame. ¹
2. Adverb. (colloquial) In a foolish or ineffective way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lamely
1. in a lame manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamely
Literary usage of Lamely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... lamely ; whereupon the coifed advocate replied, " However lamely I may handle
my client's ... lamely ..."
2. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian: The Titles of Such Works Now by Mary Augusta Scott (1895)
"... bright fancy of John Day soars but lamely, with clipped wings, in the dramatic
form. ... lamely ..."
3. Lessing's Laokoon by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Albert Hamann (1878)
"Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my
time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and ..."
4. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1831)
"lamely. ET 1797. NP 2 Esp. 635. And if th. Lord Kenyon, CJ, said: the defendant
had excluded ... lamely ..."
5. Handbook of Painting: German, Fleming, and Dutch Schools by Sir Joseph Archer Crowe, Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Franz Kugler (1898)
"A Pantry with a Dead Hare and Wild Birds, in the Munich Gallery, No. 976, looks
like a faded and somewhat lamely executed Jan Weenix. ..."
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