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weakling

[ week-ling ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who is physically or morally weak.
Synonyms: namby-pamby, chicken, milksop

weakling

/ ˈwiːklɪŋ /

a person or animal that is lacking in strength or weak in constitution or character

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First recorded in 1520–30; weak + -ling ¹

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She thought Ethelred such a whinging weakling as a child that she regularly beat, him her weapon of choice being candles.

And no wonder they despise Obama, who they view as a weakling, a loser, and a pushover.

Weakling that I am, I think I will give Clinton the benefit of the doubt one last time.

Should the hawks be vindicated in their vision of the president (or any Democrat, really) as a foreign-policy weakling?

Lyn was no chicken-hearted weakling, to sit down and weep unavailingly in time of peril.

She comes to the individual man, as she came to me and asks, Is she a cherished weakling or an equal mate, an unavoidable helper?

Against such a foe the unconscious weakling on the rock there, calmly puffing his cigar, would have no chance whatever.

Afterwards she had done everything possible to show the world she had chosen a man instead of a weakling.

The man who pays beforehand shows himself a weakling, he is afraid of himself, he is afraid he cannot hold the money.

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