"made lame" is correct and can be used in written English.
You could use it as an adjective to describe something that has been severely incapacitated or weakened. For example, you could say "The country's economy has been made lame by years of conflict."
It was hard to imagine someone who made lame jokes about Jews and "fat chicks" becoming what Stewart had been.
Chunks of Dickensian dialogue, like "decrease the surplus population" and "who made lame beggars walk and blind men see," remain largely intact.
His Tiny Tim reveals that he was never really the angelic tot who piously hoped the sight of him in church would remind the able-bodied congregation "who made lame beggars walk and blind men see".
It is in these lubricated twilight hours that friendships are made, lame recurring in-jokes are born and chests are relieved of all that 'stuff' that's been on them for so long.
She swims from the water, then slides on the sand, then, at the apex of the movie, ultimately becomes a human being, standing on her own two feet!!! (Hazaaah, and the crowd goes wild!!!) A beautiful underlying motif is made lame and offensive by the inability to tread lightly.
She spoke to you and tried to let you down gently by making lame excuses.
"I have no sympathy for the voices of those who make lame excuses for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon based on ideological or historical circumstances.
The father, by dressing as a black character, and singing and making lame jokes, is able for the first time to react truthfully to the stress of family life.
Mum, dad and bro get minced post-haste by Mick (the running time barely clocks double digits), who chortles, snarls and makes lame jokes to himself, clearly chuffed to be back on screens.
"Hair Battle Spectacular," a series beginning Tuesday on Oxygen, feels like the harbinger of something: if not the end of a thinking society and a decent pageboy, than at least the last stand of second-tier reality competition shows presided over by nobody hosts who make lame exit declamations.
