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What does lamely mean?

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Adverb
  1. In the manner of one who is lame.
  2. (colloquial) In a foolish or ineffective way.
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Their choreographed turning of backs left me speechless and moveless so I limped to my lamely un-costumed friend and told him that I was leaving.
I lamely murmured some inanity, of which she took not the slightest notice.
The fifth regular polyhedron, the dodecahedron, was left over, so Plato proposed rather lamely that the god used it up for decorating the universe.
Now as then, the opposition party finds itself stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of lamely reacting to the President's initiatives.
Elea concluded lamely inwardly cursing her inability to say what was in her heart.
It was some time before he answered the question and then he did so lamely.

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