lameness

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Recent Examples of lameness Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025 Survivors may look thin and suffer from lameness until their condition improves. Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025 Countless more suffer silently with every step from preexisting, untreated injuries and lameness. Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lameness
Noun
  • Their income is limited, because of age or infirmity.
    Dan Horn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2025
  • As if my sudden turn to sedentariness were the result of indolence, not infirmity.
    Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Will There Ever Be Another You, the main character struggles with an illness similar to long COVID, descending into a state of debility and psychosis as readers experience the chaos of her unraveling life.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
Noun
  • Applicants should bring an MLGW bill in their name, a recent pay stub, a Social Security income statement or bank statement showing direct deposit, a valid Tennessee state ID or driver’s license to verify age and address, and any disability documentation, if applicable.
    Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Eligible individuals for this Meals on Wheels program must be homebound and aged 60 or older, unable to shop for or cook meals and who face challenges due to disability, illness or isolation.
    Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In playing the character later on, was there a sort of reverse-engineering of his decrepitude?
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The clinics’ decrepitude was regularly mentioned in health ministry meetings.
    Mara Kardas-Nelson, The Dial, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Barca refused to book that impairment in 2023-24, but did so when restating that year’s figures in their latest accounts.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • No impairment is suspected on the part of the driver who struck the pedestrian.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The problem with that is that good teams — the winning franchises — build their teams inside-out by fortifying the offensive and defensive lines, which just happen to be the areas of weakness this season.
    Omar Kelly November 7, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Exports weren’t the only area that saw surprise weakness.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 7 Nov. 2025

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“Lameness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lameness. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.

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