Crossword clues for lamest
lamest
- Unlikeliest, as an excuse
- Most unconvincing
- Worst, as an excuse
- Weakest, as an excuse
- Most corny
- Worst, as excuses
- Weakest, excuse-wise
- Weakest (excuse)
- Tops in tallness?
- Tops in implausibility
- Poorest, as an excuse
- Pathetic to the max
- Most ineffectual
- Like the weakest excuse
- Least valid
- Flimsiest, as an excuse
- Unlikeliest, as an alibi
- Most halting
- Least satisfactory
- Unlikeliest to be bought
- Most contrived
- Like the worst of excuses
- Least convincing
- Least plausible, as an excuse
- Like the worst excuse
- Least effectual
- Most claudicant
- Least valid, as an excuse
- Weakest, as excuses
- Most feeble
- Least sensible
- Least believable
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lame \Lame\ (l[=a]m), a. [Compar. Lamer (l[=a]m"[~e]r); superl. Lamest.] [OE. lame, AS. lama; akin to D. lam, G. lahm, OHG., Dan., & Sw. lam, Icel. lami, Russ. lomate to break, lomota rheumatism.]
Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man. ``Lame of one leg.''
--Arbuthnot. ``Lame in both his feet.''
--2 Sam. ix. 13. ``He fell, and became lame.''
--2 Sam. iv. 4.
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Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect; as, a lame answer. ``A lame endeavor.'' --Barrow. O, most lame and impotent conclusion! --Shak. Lame duck
(Stock Exchange), a person who can not fulfill his contracts. [Cant]
An elected politician who is completing a term after having been defeated at an election; also, an office holder who cannot or chooses not to run again for the same office; -- So called from the presumed lack of political power of one who is soon to be out of office. (b) Any office holder who is serving out a term after a replacement has been selected.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: lame)
Usage examples of "lamest".
For eight long and degrading days I had skulked around Houston with all the other professionals, doing our jobs -- which was actually to do nothing at all except drink all the free booze we could pour into our bodies, courtesy of the National Football League, and listen to an endless barrage of some of the lamest and silliest swill ever uttered by man or beast.
The lamest part of the whole shameful matter was the reason suggested by his enemies for his destruction of the law, to wit: that he did it to favor Christian, because Christian was his cousin!
Still and all, it was surely one of the lamest acts of influence peddling in all of American history.
Now, if Clay had little patience with humans in general, he had even less with humans who invaded his privacy and could only manage the lamest of comebacks.
First the minibus driver, who gave me the lamest directions on earth, then the kid behind the cash register of a convenience mart, and finally an old guy sitting outside a barber shop.
Bizarrely, I catch a glimpse of myself in a gilded mirror: a headless, traumatized figure in gore-rimmed torn pajamas, drink in hand, floating the lamest of bons mots at a crowd of swank, grotesquely ignorant party-goers -- in a warm, sumptuous paradise of a room, amid ornate carpets and polished things gleaming in lamplight.
I can go back to being the lamest sorcerer in town, and we can meet every week for lunch and talk about our feelings.