wuss
Example Sentences
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Now, back to the jokes: What a wuss.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2024
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
“I’m not even bringing clothes, so I don’t wuss out,” Radar said.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
