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Maybe use "sucks"? Or "uncool" ("That thing I did was so uncool. It was really sucky.") would probably be my top suggestions.
I have seen signs hung around nearby schools trying to get the word "gay" out of common use to mean the same thing that "lame" is used for, but I don't remember a lot of the things that were on the list. If I find a copy of the sign (or one like it) I'll add it. (ok, that was 5 years ago, so they may not still be used? ... That's naive, even for me.)
As someone else said, though, I think it's used so infrequently to mean "disabled" in modern English, that you probably don't have to worry about it.
Also, I like using "weak-sauce" if I have to watch my language - I think I'm too old to use "cringe" as often, unless it's, like, really cringe.
P.s. I'm disabled, walking problems, bad back, one leg a little shorter than the other... I use "lame" to mean shitty/uncouth/sucky/disappointing/boring and don't take offense to it..
Weak-sauce is the exact essence of what I'm trying to get at, but it's too... Millennial... Like, internally there's no issue with using it, but saying/typing it out to someone older than me feels distinctly cringe (in the lightest sense, though lol just like something you're not supposed to do, you know?)
I'm a Millennial and "weak sauce" sounds pretty cringe. Or as someone said in this thread, infelicitous. It's very 2010s. It had its time; it's time we moved on from it, collectively lol...
(I had to check where I fall these days, since I thought of myself as Gen X forever, especially vs Millennial, but I guess I'm a Xennial?)
Anyway, I feel like "cringe" is in this same bucket :-P
No cap?
I literally had to look that up in Urban Dictionary when I started hearing that. I think that's a sign haha...
"Sucks" has homophobic/misogynist roots, though, and they're much more recent than the ableist usage of "lame". Even the 1950's version of "sucks eggs" wasn't actually talking about the things that come from a chicken.
Thanks, I didn't realize that, either. I always thought it literal eggs, or literal lemons, or literal donkey-balls.... (none of which sound pleasant to me)
This whole thread is enlightening to me, so thanks for asking and making your language more inclusive, OP!
Yeah if I say something sucks, I find myself often adding "and not in a good way".