feeble

This midterm convention seems to be a feeble attempt to recreate that feeling for him.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

But his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party made little headway improving the country's finances, with galloping inflation, crippling debt and a feeble rupee undermining economic reform.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The film "mucks up Orwell", according to the Wall Street Journal,, external who surmised: "As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed."

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Beth took an observation of the new boys and decided that the lame one was not ‘dreadful’, but gentle and feeble, and she would be kind to him on that account.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

In a feebler, curious state, falsehoods can take root while truth slips through our hands, and vice versa.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

He was atop the gate again during last year’s 70th anniversary celebrations, looking much feebler as he was helped to his feet beside Xi.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

The storm surge along the coast was feebler than feared in many places, and the Mississippi River stayed well below the tops of the levees.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2019

Is it any wonder that Rhode Island’s economy is consequently feebler than it should be, leaving its residents with less money in their pockets and fewer opportunities to get ahead?

From Washington Times ● May 18, 2018

The sea breeze cooled the sun, too, which shone whiter and feebler against aging clouds.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

And yet, time and time again, powerful corporations have been allowed to pursue their cases, often all the way to a victory, with the feeblest claims of harm.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2025

But they weakened their endorsement after several members had questions about how well it works in the feeblest of patients, whether boosters will be needed and be effective, and the cost.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

They are all diegetic — actual numbers performed by the characters — and are thus connected to the story, as in a jukebox musical, by only the feeblest of threads.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022

And yet, even the feeblest nature lovers feel the sap rising, which is surely to the good.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2019

Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan