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wimpy

[wim-pee] / ˈwɪm pi /






















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As a wimpy ectomorph, my temporary high-T status provided a validation I didn’t realize I was looking for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Get therapy, even if you once thought it was a little wimpy.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2024

At first people thought I was being a bit wimpy or that I just wanted the day off school.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023

“He is a great American. He is very strong in his belief system, and he is not a wimpy person.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

“Thanks for making sure. I didn’t mean to be so wimpy about this.”

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

Diesel, Johnson and Statham have insisted on counting blows in fights to make sure they don’t come off as wimpier than their counterparts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

Think dinosaurs roared like in ‘Jurassic Park’? The truth, new research says, is a bit wimpier.

From Washington Post ● May 9, 2022

Solar Wind Stifles Mercury's Magnetic Field Ever since NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft zipped past Mercury in 1974, scientists have wondered why the planet's magnetic field is so much wimpier than expected.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 22, 2011

It’s true that a passive verb makes for a wimpier, more roundabout way of saying something.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Straight out of the box, it serves up a digitally young-ified Kurt Russell grinning along to the syrupy strains of “Brandy,” one of the wimpiest pop tunes of the 1970s.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2017

Now North had passed, which, especially given the favorable vulnerability, is at present leading the race for wimpiest bid of the year.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2015

Middle class is the wimpiest term in the lexicon of social taxonomy, meaning little more than not rich, not poor.

From Time Magazine Archive


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