wussy

Example Sentences

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The point is, even we, the wussy day campers who couldn’t handle being outdoors or away from our families for too long, told ghost stories.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2019

Call me a wussy hippie, but what Loreen gave Hannah didn’t feel like tough love, or good mothering.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 18, 2017

The crux of the problem is this: I want to be held, and it is an awful, wussy feeling.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2010

I was sort of fixated on fairness when I was 15, and I sort of looked wussy – I wore a lot of Smiths shirts and I had skater bangs.

From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2010

“I was tired of being a wussy little do-gooder and I wanted out.”

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth