tamely

adverb

Definition of tamelynext
as in meekly

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Recent Examples of tamely Once the players returned to the field, Diaz inexplicably tried a Panenka-style chip and his weak penalty sailed tamely into the arms of Senegal goalkeeper Edouard Mendy. — Reuters, NBC news, 18 Jan. 2026 Dominik Szoboszlai had just squandered a golden chance by firing tamely into the arms of Emiliano Martinez after winning the ball back high up the field when the Kop parked their frustration and vocally declared their unwavering faith in the Dutchman. — James Pearce, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025 That test soon divides matter, even for a far from sensitive ear, into what reads well & what reads tamely, haltingly, jerkily, lopsidedly, top-heavily, or otherwise badly. — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tamely
  1. meekly
  2. passively
Adverb
  • The journey moves through several rooms jumbling period French architecture, the first meekly lit with artificial moonlight and video monitors that flicker out from cracks in the wall.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026
  • His recollections often take the form of dialogues in which interlocutors meekly acknowledge his overwhelming rhetorical advantage.
    — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of meekly
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  • Upon landing, the craft passively self-rights and transitions its dual wingsails to wind propulsion without active morphing, achieving a high 91 percent effective mass usage across air and water.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The film instead passively constructs Tessa’s world as a colorblind one, in which racial difference simply never comes up.
    — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
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“Tamely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tamely. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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