lame
Example Sentences
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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
The hazard of a fancy crowd, of course, is that a fancy crowd is a blah crowd, which is standard at a Super Bowl, but lame for a World Cup.
A “lame duck” Fed chair may find it harder to muster the authority necessary to unite a fractured board.
From MarketWatch
Before embracing the lame duck narrative, we should instead be asking two simple questions.
From Salon
"I'm not sure he's a lame duck yet," Garret Martin, professor of international relations at American University, told AFP.
From Barron's
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