lamely
adverb/ˈleɪmli/
/ˈleɪmli/
- in a way that does not sound very confident, or that does not persuade other people synonym feebly
- ‘I must have made a mistake,’ she said lamely.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryLamely is used with these verbs:- finish
- joke
- say
- …
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