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Tamely

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tame  (tm)
adj. tam·er, tam·est
1. Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.
2. Naturally unafraid; not timid: "The sea otter is gentle and relatively tame" Peter Matthiessen.
3. Submissive; docile; fawning: tame obedience.
4. Insipid; flat: a tame Christmas party.
5. Sluggish; languid; inactive: a tame river.
tr.v. tamed, tam·ing, tames
1. To make tractable; domesticate.
2. To subdue or curb.
3. To tone down; soften.
[Middle English, from Old English tam; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]
tama·ble, tamea·ble adj.
tamely adv.
tameness n.
tamer n.
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Adv.1.tamely - in a tame manner; "the labour movement allowed itself to be run out of power tamely"


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No, sir; not yet, said Stubb, emboldened, I will not tamely be called a dog, sir.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship's company down to doom with him?
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The manners of Porthos are therefore prettier than the manners of David, who when he has sent me to hide from him behind a tree sometimes comes not in search, and on emerging tamely from my concealment I find him playing other games entirely forgetful of my existence.
The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
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