"Lacking", Tom said without meaning.
"Why can't you ever be on time?" Tom said belatedly.
"That faint odour just came back", Tom said reminiscently.
"Trump needs a better running mate", Tom dispensed.
"We are not cousins", Tom said unrelatedly.
"You just left ninety-nine hundreths of that cake!", exclaimed Tom extremely obtusely.
"It looks like you, and it does everything you do, and yet it isn't you", Tom said on reflection.
"Tom got here after the other two", Tom said in third-person.
"It's fair in this specific context", Tom said just in case.
"Well, Pumbaa, you should know that I've already bested your little friend at Battleship", Tom said sanctimoniously.
"Large semi-aquatic herbivores are vital to the health of the ecosystem", Tom said hypocritically.
"I might not have kids, but I can still self-identify as a father", Tom said transparently.
"This whole dissertation is a load of crap", Tom said in abstract.
"Veronica is much too formal," she said with irony.
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"That AA Milne adaptation was crap," Tom pooh-poohed.
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"Other guys never want to hang out with me," mentioned Tom.
"For your insolence in disrespecting me, I shall become a scourge upon your kingdom", Ishtar said urbanely.
"Don't call me Francis," he said, being frank.
"I come to pay respects to mighty Genghis", Tom contributed
"I have committed no crime", Tom pled in a sense.