What's the difference between lame and unfunny?

Lame


Definition:

  • (superl.) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
  • (superl.) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man.
  • (superl.) Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
  • (v. t.) To make lame.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
  • (2) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
  • (3) The highest cost for veterinary services related to episodes of disease were for dystocia, lameness, and ocular carcinoma.
  • (4) The LDET biopsies resulted in little discomfort whereas the SFT biopsies led to temporary lameness.
  • (5) Three dogs admitted for evaluation of lameness were determined to be infected with a neutrophilic strain of Ehrlichia.
  • (6) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
  • (7) Historically, both horses had intermittent lameness that had responded to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and brief rest periods.
  • (8) Analgesic potency of aspirin was decreased to the level of sodium salicylate by injection of prostaglandin E2 into the inflamed rat paw in the adjuvant-induced lameness test.
  • (9) Specific clinical signs of disease such as nervous disorders and lameness were also observed.
  • (10) Children were examined for lameness in the Danfa Project district of rural Ghana to assess the impact of endemic poliomyelitis and to test a widely held hypothesis that paralytic poliomyelitis is relatively rare in such districts (less than 1 per 1000 children affected).
  • (11) Seven horses, 2 to 4 years of age, were examined because of moderate-to-severe forelimb lameness, mild effusion of the middle carpal joint (3 horses), and pain on palpation of the origin of the suspensory ligament (4 horses).
  • (12) Fourteen dogs were using the treated limb within 1 day and eight dogs within 2 days, although some lameness may have persisted for several weeks.
  • (13) Six of the orally infected P. maniculatus developed clinical signs including ruffled hair coat, inappetence, reluctance to move, and lameness in the rear legs.
  • (14) In two cases, the detachment occurred unilaterally; one was a gilt showing severe lameness which precluded mating and the other was a uniparous sow which showed only slight lameness.
  • (15) Disseminated aspergillosis attributable to Aspergillus deflectus was diagnosed in a Springer Spaniel with lethargy, lameness, anorexia, weight loss, pyrexia, lymphadenopathy, hematuria, and urinary incontinence.
  • (16) Congenital malformation of the carpal joint in a young dog resulted in a progressive lameness.
  • (17) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
  • (18) Normal and osteochondrotic humeri and femurs were obtained from five normal and ten lame adolescent boars to study cartilage proteoglycans.
  • (19) Among his many recommendations, Laming called for improvements in the exchange of information between the various authorities.
  • (20) A female juvenile rhesus monkey experienced a 3-wk period of vague lameness and limb disuse, followed by a severe attack of acute polyarthritis resulting in marked radiographic changes.

Unfunny


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The crisis in the Socialist Workers party appears to confirm every one of the worst comic clichés about all that lies left of Jon Cruddas , as if the party's central committee were specifically aiming at eliciting unfunny Python comparisons.
  • (2) The film, starring the Bridesmaids actor as a former business heavyweight struggling to rebuild her life after completing a jail sentence for insider trading, has a rating of just 17% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and was labelled an “unfunny, chaotic mess of ludicrous plotting and tone-deaf set-pieces” by Jordan Hoffman in the Guardian.
  • (3) In that case, out lesbian equalled unfunny and politically correct, and even its lesbian fans left in droves.
  • (4) The use of "lad culture" to peddle the unfunny and ill-cultured is not unique to them – and indeed, to their credit, they seem to have retreated from the internet to lick their wounds.
  • (5) Many tweeters noted the trend whereby (according to Simon Guerrero) "Channel 4 use offensive programme names but say, 'Well *they* are OK with it...'" In the Telegraph , meanwhile, the film critic Scott Jordan Harris, who is disabled, argued that "making a show just to say that disabled people should be allowed to be funny is ridiculously outdated … All [I'm Spazticus] proves is that we disabled people can be just as a mean-spirited, puerile and unfunny as the able-bodied."
  • (6) But to caricature it as an unfunny version of 1066 and All That is the kind of disingenuous misrepresentation of a document that Richard Evans would denounce as professional misconduct if he were not the historian doing it.
  • (7) Lucas and Walliams are funny because they're ironic, Moyles is unfunny because there's a victim, and his terms are unsophisticated.
  • (8) He not only represents everything a DJ shouldn't be – obnoxious, petulant, unfunny, and so over-fond of his own horrible, squeaky voice that entire half-hours can pass without any music being played – he represents everything that's wrong with this country.
  • (9) Ricky Gervais tours the country with a routine that even Kelvin MacKenzie damned as "both unfunny and offensive ... basically Jim Davidson from two decades ago."
  • (10) People say, 'Why are cabinet ministers so dour and unfunny?'
  • (11) There's always a temptation, with a tension that is quite subtle - funny homophobia, versus the unfunny kind - to try to make rules out of it.
  • (12) Most mothers and daughters don't start the jokes about killing each other until the teen years hit, but the unfunny truth is that my daughter and I were a deadly combination before she was even born.
  • (13) Maybe they would find it harder to justify a T-shirt to the survivor of childhood abuse even when similarly unfunny and harmful.
  • (14) Judd Apatow, film producer: 'As a teenager, I was really unfunny but I wanted to get into comedy...' 'As a teenager, I was really unfunny' … Judd Apatow's ideal bookshelf.
  • (15) The Mail was scathing, describing the revamp as “at best like watching a Top Gear tribute band performing one of those unfunny celebrity sketches on Comic Relief”.
  • (16) The singing is a bit sinister, and this manages to be both unfunny and rubbish.
  • (17) The Boss review – unfunny adventures in capitalism with Melissa McCarthy Read more Victory for The Boss meant Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman slipped off the top spot after just two weeks at No 1, despite its barnstorming $166m opening a fortnight ago.
  • (18) 1.49pm ET: On Twitter, a sour note from Peter Daou , who ran Hillary Clinton's online presidential primary campaign: Great turnout, but so far the #rally4sanity seems aimless and unfunny.
  • (19) Four days after Rushdie received his "unfunny Valentine", he issued an apology: "I profoundly regret the distress that publication has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam."
  • (20) But the joke – the unfunny, pathetic joke – is on Hodges.

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