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wimpy

[wim-pee] / ˈwɪm pi /






















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It would be tragic if it weren’t so wimpy.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2025

The wimpy L.A. media should have pushed back on the Dodgers and said, “If Ohtani won’t answer questions we won’t bother to send a reporter or film crew.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 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

“It ain’t wimpy, that’s for sure,” he said in a 2014 documentary about him.

From New York Times • May 10, 2023

And as soon as I thought it, Coach Quatrini said, “Tryouts will be in a week, and you better be a whole lot faster than this, you dang wimpy slugs.”

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt




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