Crossword-Solution: LAMELY 6 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Lamely adv. An a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as,
to walk lamely; a figure lamely drawn.

We have 13 clues for the answer “LAMELY”

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How bad excuses are given 1 answer
In a weak or clumsy way 1 answer
In an ineffectual way 1 answer
In an unconvincing fashion 1 answer
In an unconvincing way 1 answer
Unconvincingly 1 answer
With halting steps 1 answer
Without believability 1 answer
In a weak way 5 answers
haltingly 6 answers
A PERSON WHO IS PHYSICALLY WEAK AND INEFFECTUAL 11 answers
inefficiently 21 answers
Weakly. 34 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LAMELY (5)

Without these, indeed, you Would find it ere long, As though I should read you The words of a song That lamely would linger When lacking the rune, The voice of the singer, The lilt of the tune.
The Man from Snowy River Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 1995
Louis in the 'City of Baton Rouge,' on a delightfully hot day, but with the main purpose of my visit but lamely accomplished.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
Munro, to see the only man in the world towards whom he has any feeling of friendship, misunderstanding him so completely, for very often when you say nothing your face shows very clearly what you think.” I could only answer lamely that I was very sorry if I had misjudged her husband in any way, and that no one had a keener appreciation of some of his qualities than I had.
The Stark Munro Letters J. Stark Munro 1995
Another of them was for instance that the wonderful woman’s overflow of surprise and amusement was wholly into French, which she struck him as speaking with an unprecedented command of idiomatic turns, but in which she got, as he might have said, somewhat away from him, taking all at once little brilliant jumps that he could but lamely match.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1996
But whether, in this ride, you pass by obelisks, or columns ancient temples, theatres, houses, porticoes, or forums: it is strange to see, how every fragment, whenever it is possible, has been blended into some modern structure, and made to serve some modern purpose—a wall, a dwelling-place, a granary, a stable—some use for which it never was designed, and associated with which it cannot otherwise than lamely assort.
Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens 2013

Quotes with LAMELY (3)

Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?” Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had the gift before? That she couldn’t have used it against him? “I would never lie — ”The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie.“I’m so sorry,” she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. “You’re even more painful to look at than she is.
Marissa Meyer Cinder
In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.
Idries Shah Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.
Plato
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Universal, WP.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1952–2009).