legit, lame (NOT SATISFACTORY), feeble, warm-blooded, job-stickiness

Young people's job-stickiness may help to explain the puzzle of Britain’s awful productivity, which is lower than that of comparable countries and growing only feebly

For them and for the economy, that’s a problem

ECONOMIST.COM

Young Britons are staying in jobs for longer

For them and for the economy, that’s a problem

The public still has no idea of what part of her is stage-managed and focus-grouped, and what part is legit. It’s pretty pathetic, at this stage of her career, that she has to wage a major offensive, by helicopter and Web testimonials, to make herself appear warm-blooded.

Rush to Judgment

By MAUREEN DOWD

he Washington Post takes a government angle: the stimulus efforts are looking increasingly feeble and the scope of the problem gets larger and larger.

Editorial 紐約時報 
NASA’s Hidden Air Safety Survey

Published: October 25, 2007

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which has a mandate to enhance the safety of air travel, has been suppressing huge quantities of data that apparently show the risks for civilian aircraft are much higher than commonly estimated. The agency’s lame excuses for refusing to release the information must make any traveler wonder how bad the implications might be.


lame (NOT SATISFACTORY)
adjective
(especially of an excuse or argument) weak and unsatisfactory:
a lame excuse

Lame

Adjective

1. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument".

2. (of horses) disabled in the feet or legs.

3. Disabled in the feet or legs.

feeble
adjective
1 weak and without energy, strength or power:
He was a feeble, helpless old man.
The little lamp gave only a feeble light.
Opposition to the plan was rather feeble.

2 not effective or good:
a feeble joke/excuse

feebly

adverb

legit
adjective [after verb] INFORMAL
legitimate:
I'm not getting involved in this fund-raising scheme if it isn't legit.BOOKS
A Prince of Pulp, Legit at Last
By CHARLES McGRATH
It’s hard to know what the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick would have made of the fact that this month he has arrived at the pinnacle of literary respectability.

warm-blooded
adjective
having a body temperature which stays the same and does not change with the temperature of the surroundings:
Birds and mammals are warm-blooded.
Compare cold-blooded.