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weak-willed

[week-wild] / ˈwikˈwɪld /


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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

And, as researchers are finding, they are already toppling the belief that obesity is simply a moral failing of the weak-willed.

From BBC Oct. 18, 2024

We should also respect present humans as rational beings capable of independent thought, rather than weak-willed zombies susceptible to crude verbal mind control.

From Washington Post Feb. 23, 2023

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

From New York Times Oct. 29, 2020

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




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