weakling
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Frankly, the dorky version of Adam is more fun than the heroic He-Man, even with Knight hammering us every minute to laugh that he’s a total weakling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
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
“I’ve never seen anyone go after a 50-pound weakling with the same ferocity he goes after a 500-pound rhinoceros.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2021
“It shows you’re a weakling, Mr. President,” charged Kissinger.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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It is her way of culling the weaklings; she will care only for the cubs that survive the fall and clamber back up to the bridge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Planning is for weaklings, rational analysis is disdained, the amygdala and the gut replace the cerebral cortex.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
These are some of the self-deluded weaklings who set the tone of institutional life in much of America today.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
"You are weaklings who fight civilians," Mr Zelensky, who was born in Kryvyi Rih, said in his late night address on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2022
“Some will. Not all. We have our cowards and our knaves, our weaklings and our fools, as do they.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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