weakling

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

Don’t get me wrong: J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s legendary founding director, would view Patel as a contemptible weakling.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2025

The U.S. economy is not a 90-pound weakling when it comes to manufacturing muscle.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2023

So on paper, their mayor can beat our mayor in sheer authority, but neither are L.A.’s mayoral powers the 98-pound weakling they’re sometimes made out to be.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

"I don't think Unferth took Gren- del's arm. His wrists weren't strong enough to lift it down without dropping it and wakening us all. He was a weakling, in more ways than one."

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

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

“Idiots. They built their door so it opened out. When it snowed, they trapped themselves inside. The weaklings couldn’t pull or claw the door down!”

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys