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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamblike
Adjective
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In a few seconds, and more than once, a sheepish Mad Dog admitted to being friends with Mara.—
Bob Raissman,
New York Daily News,
11 Jan. 2025 -
Musk has not been sheepish about staking the company’s future on autonomous software.—
Ryan Hogg,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The Movie finds its titular alpha wolf Scott McCall (Tyler Posey) a teenager no more, but still struggling with the same hangdog loneliness.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
26 Jan. 2023
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The man is Calum (Normal People's Paul Mescal), dangling on the cusp of 32, handsome in a hangdog way, with an arm in a cast and a big smile that can't entirely hide the distress that nips at his joy.—
A.A. Dowd,
Chron,
9 Nov. 2022
Adjective
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His co-stars, like Will Ferrell’s savage Mugatu, Owen Wilson’s stoner hottie Hansel, and Nathan Lee Graham’s servile Todd — all so precise and well-defined in the original’s ravelike milieu — are doomed to retrace their old steps here.—
Sean Malin,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2024
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These officials could, in turn, redistribute some of their private goods among their own servile lieutenants, but the monarch retained ultimate power to grant or revoke their privileged status.—
Serhiy Kudelia,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Feb. 2014
Adjective
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Your inability to establish a rational, functional and legal system of immigration is an abject failure on your part.—
Peter Cunningham,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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That, Spoelstra said, has been helped by getting greater stability with the rotation, including Andrew Wiggins filling a void that had been the abject disinterest of Jimmy Butler.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Small mercies are welcome when the losses are this meek.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Sometimes, young players of his profile are quite meek — apologetic for their ability, even.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
27 July 2024
Adjective
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By the time Napoleon invaded Egypt, in 1798, Alexandria had become a humble Ottoman port.—
Hannah Edgar,
ARTnews.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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Instead, Ram is using the humble 3.6 L Pentastar V6.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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However, many rely on it mostly for menial tasks, such as playing music, asking questions or checking the weather.—
Haleluya Hadero and Wyatte Grantham-Philips,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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Born into a wealthy family in 1896 in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, Yamaguchi joined a society that renounced materialism at a young age, and its teachings included walking door-to-door offering menial labor in exchange for food.—
Nathan Pugh,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 Dec. 2024
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“Lamblike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamblike. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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