lame
/leɪm/ adjective B2- Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs. · With the years, this horse has little by little gone lame.
- That cannot be moved properly.
- Physically disabled. · a lame man
- Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
- Unconvincing or unbelievable. · He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party.
- Uncool, uninteresting, or unfunny. · He kept telling these extremely lame jokes all night.
Comparative lamer · Superlative lamest
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“His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,” said Mother Wolf quietly.
“He has been lame in one foot from his birth.
Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world!
And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!
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