Adjective : an anemic effort; anemic tones. From Dictionary.com.
First-quarter profits are forecast to rise anemically, 2.6% from a year earlier. From Wordnik.com. [A Profit Fumble -- or Not?] Reference
First-quarter profits are forecast to rise anemically, just 2.6% from a year ago. From Wordnik.com. [Are bulls right? Or bears?] Reference
The Playstation 3 is selling rather anemically, at least over here in the States. From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo USB hub and PS2 Adapter « Boy Genius Report] Reference
Democracy developed late and anemically, leading to ineffectual minority governments. From Wordnik.com. [At the Gates of Brussels] Reference
Manned space most likely won't be canceled outright, but will be continued and funded anemically. From Wordnik.com. [Changing Course - AGAIN? - NASA Watch] Reference
However, these nations have performed anemically, remaining too quiet and acquiescing too frequently. From Wordnik.com. [The U.N.'s Human-Rights Sham] Reference
Japan's economy grow anemically over that decade, but as the nearby chart shows, its national debt exploded. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama-san] Reference
Its profit is down, and revenue is growing anemically this year, according to people familiar with the agency. From Wordnik.com. [Publicis Is in Lead to Acquire Razorfish] Reference
What they didn't do well then, and what various agencies have been only fitfully and anemically trying to do since, is open the doors of middle class security through homeownership to non-whites as well. From Wordnik.com. [SEC Probes Goldman Sachs for Investor Fraud but Ignores Widespread Racially Discriminatory Practices] Reference
“Holistic” (and “wholistic”) was the pseudo-hippyish ancestor of “integral” (even though Aurobindo was using “integral” long before the 1960s), as full of New Age, anemically grounded optimism as it was lacking in genuine practicality. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Masters: What Is Integral?] Reference
This volume starts with fifty pages or so of the author's war stories from his days not only as an Oklahoma film professor and convener of screenwriting seminars but also as a co-writer on various international co-productions — all either anemically distributed or unproduced. From Wordnik.com. [Offshoring the Audience] Reference
She's since gone on to "apologize" for the galactically ill-advised comment -- something I feel the need to clarify because Clinton didn't, in fact, say she was sorry for even bringing the word "assassination" into the current political discourse as much as she argued semantics, attempting to justify the meaning behind her statement while tossing out an anemically half-assed mea culpa to anyone who may have misconstrued her point. From Wordnik.com. [Chez Pazienza: The World I Knew: Why It's Time for Hillary Clinton To Go] Reference
Antichrist, it performed anemically in limited release. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
Indeed it was anemically green; uneven, hacked and ragged; shorn of its emerald beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Greener Than You Think] Reference
Coffee Party USA's largest reported chapters and found the numbers to be anemically small. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
Fifteen years later Feifer stretches the financial limits of his anemically budgeted period piece. From Wordnik.com. [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference
Since June, it has bounced along anemically between 47 and 55 as rising unemployment has taken a toll. From Wordnik.com. [WRAL.com Top Stories] Reference
The CW taps into the vampire craze, though anemically, with its high-school soap, "The Vampire Diaries.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
LONDON (AP) ― European and U.S. stock markets found a measure of support Wednesday from a survey showing the U.S. services sector grew - albeit anemically - in December. From Wordnik.com. [CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports] Reference
We might, for example, see in his framework a lack of in-depth attention being given to emotion and emotional literacy, and recognize this as a weakness in (or an anemically developed aspect of) his model - mentioning an "affective line" is just not enough for us. From Wordnik.com. [Integral Options Cafe] Reference
The life-blood of Tolstoy’s work, treated anemically. From Wordnik.com. [2010 June | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
Last month, it was still possible to read the data as showing that that the Dem’s generic congressional lead had finally joined the trend of the other indicators, "but only anemically so," as I said at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » The Outsider is IN] Reference
A strategist at SG Asset Management in Tokyo, said stocks performed anemically because investors expected a weak survey and because the yen strengthened after Moody's Investors Service Inc. upgraded its rating on Japan government bonds to Aa3 from A1. From Wordnik.com. [Tokyo index edges lower] Reference
In fact, the PEN American Center's own resolution ” "no mere platitude of liberalism," Mr. Halsband informs us ” was anemically made known in the one and only sentence on the subject that Mr. Halsband quotes from his own article in The New York Times Book Review of Sept. 3, 1967. From Wordnik.com. [Silence] Reference
Market participants have grasped at slender "green shoots": things that are declining but at a slower rate, or that have stopped getting worse, or that have begun to improve, albeit anemically (e.g. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
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