weakling

Example Sentences

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Former Big Ten weakling Indiana defied all conventional wisdom to become the nation’s only undefeated team and claim its first-ever No. 1 ranking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

My mother was the weakling; my father was the smartest person in the room.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024

Jesse Eisenberg is excellent as a nebbish weakling who decides to become a “real man” by learning karate.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023

Like the Neuse River waterdog, they spend their entire lives confined to water with larval gills and weakling limbs.

From Scientific American • Feb. 2, 2022

"And weakling or not, he fought that cliff gallantly, Val the miller. He fought it to exhaustion."

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda