Sentence examples similar to lame simile from inspiring English sources

Mixing humour and real drama is one of the hardest things to do in crime fiction, and it demands a lot more than lame one-liners, scatalogical expletives, brazenly stereotyped characters and tortuously over-stretched similes.

A simile?

How lame.

A striking simile, no?

Pretty lame.

Lame excuse.

Sounds lame.

Lame scheduling?

Kinda lame.

Flamingly lame.

"You are so lame.