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
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
The performers fling themselves into dumb and painful stunts on purpose, and blissfully weak-willed audience members cackle knowing that their laughter is proof that they haven’t grown up either.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022
He cursed the weak-willed men of the town who did not understand the freedom a man of the llano must have, and he cursed the war for taking his sons away.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
