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词汇 feebly
释义 feebly
adverb
uk /ˈfiː.bli/ us /ˈfiː.bli/
in a weak way, without energy, strength, or power: 虚弱地,无力地
He lifted his hands feebly.他无力地举起双手。
The ball hopped feebly toward the goal.球无力地弹向球门。
in a way that is not effective or good: 软弱地;无力地;无效地
"It's nice!" said Henry feebly.“这真好!”亨利虚弱地说。
I objected, but only feebly.我表示反对,但不够坚决。
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feeble
I reached the tree and leaned feebly against it.
She smiled feebly.
They protested feebly that they didn't know what I was talking about.
I was feebly trying to make my excuses.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Weakness and vulnerability
Achilles heel
asthenia
at a low ebbidiom
atonic
atony
fragility
frail
glass jaw
helpless
helplessly
shakiness
shaky
sitting duck
sitting target
soft target
weakling
weakly
weakness
weedy
wetly

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Useless and futile

Examples of feebly


feebly
The other spots are feebly present in some specimens and vividly in others.
Flapping movements of the lateral lobes may have also enabled the animal to have moved over the substrate, swimming feebly.
Isolated from organized labor, feebly represented by their association, and continuously defied by a stringent colonial government, the civil servants' conditions worsened.
Median area of propodeum feebly alutaceous, plica indicated in posterior quarter only.
The bones are delicate, feebly ossified.
Feebly we wave about a policy of boycott because of our own tainted beef.
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But indexes in the shape of all these statistics are only a mirror reflecting the position, and reflecting it rather feebly.
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The problem that it attempts feebly to address is large and growing at a frightening rate.
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But we are just scratching at the problem, feebly wondering what we shall do next.
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As this proposition was so clearly indefensible, the only resort has been feebly to fall back on to a committee—and what a committee!
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They tried—feebly and not very successfully, but they tried.
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When challenged to give examples, he said, rather feebly, that it could be easily documented.
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At the very best it feebly condemns the constant increase in international crime.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is supposed to be represented, but at the moment it is very feebly represented.
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Paragraph 5.13 merely claims, rather feebly: "workplace ballots cannot guarantee a higher turnout".
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