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weak-willed
[ week-wild ]
adjective
- having or showing a want of firmness of will; easily swayed.
weak-willed
adjective
- lacking strength of will
Word History and Origins
Origin of weak-willed1
Example Sentences
If Ryan does bend, he risks looking like another weak-willed politico to the Tea Party faithful.
LACOB: A massive fail, because it makes Maggie further read as weak-willed and rather pathetic.
But he was to find himself under a spell such as is said to bring the weak-willed bird to the serpent's maw.
Unmarried mothers are overwhelmingly preponderant among the frivolous and weak-willed.
Temptations to which the weak-willed succumb do not affect the strong-willed.
These traits and foibles made both peculiarly liable to the temptations which assail pleasure-loving and weak-willed boys.
It is not easy to decide what shall be done with the poor, the unfortunate, and the weak-willed members of society.
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