wuss

Example Sentences

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Now, back to the jokes: What a wuss.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2024

Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 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

“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