wuss
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This excerpt makes him look like a wuss!
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2022
When it comes to food, I am adventurous in my tastes, but I am a wuss about heat — a connoisseur of blandness.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2021
Gottlieb is a public figure who essentially said that Luck, a man who suffered a lacerated kidney, shoulder surgery and a concussion, among other injuries, is a wuss just like most of his generation.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2019
I remember the dizziness, headaches, et. al. and being told to "get back in there" or I was some kind of wuss.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
“Not because I’m a do-gooder but because I’m a big giant wuss who no one wants to have around. So there, now you know.”
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
And actually maybe the Oath Keepers, those guys are such wusses, they might’ve been nervous.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2024
College kids are called wimpy, wusses, whiners, babies, and, in the words of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes.”
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2019
Meanwhile, us wusses are cowering under our sheets.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2019
Mice, for their part, can’t taunt other mice or call them wusses; still, the presence of peers is enough to stimulate risky behavior.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2015
But what she’s really saying is that we’re both wusses.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
