lame
Example Sentences
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I suppose you could keep the plate umpires around for aesthetics, let them keep the mask and call foul tips and hit batters, but that’s lame.
I remember feeling strongly that being a teenager in the ’90s was, to use a term from the era, totally lame.
He’s also a lame duck and getting lamer.
I tried lots of times to say something, but it sounded just as lame as the things they were saying.
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Yet, as the storm ended, one of my dogs was lame and I had to put him on the sleigh.
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