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UK
/tˈeɪmli/
]
ADVERB
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in a tame manner
the labour movement allowed itself to be run out of power tamely
How To Use tamely In A Sentence
- She's not likely to stand by and tamely accept defeat.
- Then Garry O'Connor took his turn, scampering unhindered before shooting tamely across goal.
- There was no excuse though when Thomas shot tamely wide from eight yards.
- should not tamely submit to the unpredictable and ununderstood cycles of wars
- Roberts should have done better than shoot tamely wide when more clever work by Moran led to Bracey palming his acute-angled shot into the big striker's path.
- There was no excuse though when Thomas shot tamely wide from eight yards.
- Yet they neither copy Japan nor submit tamely to foreign domination.
- Today, the sea laps tamely over the shingle beach beside the tangle of narrow streets. Times, Sunday Times
- It began rather tamely, I am afraid, and started to fall to pieces after the first fortissimo downward scale.
- But he added just ten more runs before tamely cutting to backward point. The Sun