lame
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What should have been a unique way for “Supergirl” to remark on the infantilization projected onto so many women superheroes is cast away as a joke so lame it doesn’t even deserve to be finished.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
Culturally, hyper-machismo has oscillated from cool to lame to ironically cool and back again for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
So there may not be any significant surprises from the Fed on Wednesday, especially now that Powell is essentially a lame duck.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
I remember feeling strongly that being a teenager in the ’90s was, to use a term from the era, totally lame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Still, it’s nice to watch a movie together, even if it’s a lame movie.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
As for his newly created clothes, there was an “homage to the lodge” in plaid lames and cashmeres, melting into sunset-drenched oranges and pinks inspired by his Colorado vacation.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2021
But then Blane lames out on taking her, and this is where Andie really comes into her own.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2014
"A President," says Political Scientist lames MacGregor Burns, "must be both preacher and politician."
From Time Magazine Archive
Teahupoo makes and breaks, or shames and sometimes even lames.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was going to be quite a sight, and we couldn't be the only three lames in there looking like we still played with blocks.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
He’s also a lame duck and getting lamer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
He’s lame as hell, he’s lamer than George Lopez in my book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
It was such a snooze, he almost forgot to celebrate after holing his final putt and gave a lamer fist pump than Lucas Glover at the 2009 U.S.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 26, 2019
Many spots played it safe, with wan jokes that felt even lamer than usual.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2017
Don’t know why I thought it was going to be something lamer, like jumping from rock to rock on even ground.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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 ● Jan. 12, 2026
He apologised for a follow-up track he released promising to "humble" Kendrick, saying it was the "lamest, goofiest" thing he'd recorded and was a "mis-step".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
And she just showed us why in the lamest way possible, drawing a rare bit of bipartisan scorn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
My Gucci-wearing pals will stage the world’s lamest riot.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2020
“It’s just my luck. I’m the lamest satyr ever, and I find the two most powerful half- bloods of the century, Thalia and Percy.”
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
Then Marco the Magnificent appears, and the gal he forever two-times; then Paul, the lamed, embittered puppeteer, and the pal he forever snaps at.
From Time Magazine Archive
To small Drew University of Madison, N. J. fell the lamed Wendel mansion on 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, with a high-fenced side yard which was maintained exclusively for Spinster Wendel's toothless, asthmatic poodle Tobey.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slowly its 17th Century Tower built by lamed Sir Christopher Wren gathered new bells.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scott was lamed by a child hood attack of polio and was ill for much of his life; Dumas was in overpowering good health and spirits all his days.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out on the verge he found Dandelion urging Haystack, who was lamed and spent.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Since last spring the world's biggest public school system, New York City's, has wallowed along like a superliner with a laming leak.
From Time Magazine Archive
My wife suffered from laming traumatic dislocation for eight years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of all the difficult hurdles a new French Premier must leap without laming himself, the first and foremost is Algeria.
From Time Magazine Archive
Menard knew, from the way his shoulders followed the swing of his arms, that the steady paddling was laming him sadly.
From The Road to Frontenac by Merwin, Samuel
The corn comparison against the International Copy-right, which I read in some newspapers, is a laming comparison.
From Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Rocchietti, Joseph
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