weak-willed

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Other notable singers included bass-baritone Robert Frazier as the Rev. John Hale, who realizes the truth too late, and soprano Kresley Figueroa as the treacherously weak-willed Mary Warren.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

“Succession” is the story of an overbearing right-wing media mogul and his weak-willed children.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2020

The rather weak-willed Henry doesn’t know what to believe.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2016

"I was weak-willed at the time," he says.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2015

For only an instant he glimpsed, at the center of the man’s weak-willed soul, a great kindness.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer