wallflower
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It means you are a capitalist wallflower, a laggard with a serious character flaw.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Vanderbilt, the former SEC wallflower, just posted the first 10-win season in its history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
In 2019 Coughlan was cast as wallflower Penelope Featherington, the youngest daughter of a newly rich family during London's Regency era, in Bridgerton.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024
McInerny gives an especially strong performance as Sam’s dependable sister — a wallflower who delivers the most incendiary line of the play.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024
My father was trying to rescue me from being a long-legged wallflower and all I had done was make him mad.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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