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pushover

noun as in something or someone easily influenced

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They know Trump is a pushover.

From Salon

“In my past, if I ever chose someone who was good, they were too soft for me — too sweet or a pushover. And Simon is not sweet in a wimpy way. He has a feminist soul with a masculine energy.”

It’s harder to prove that friendship has made a reporter a pushover for his sources, so platonic relationships tend to go uncontested, and we stupidly reserve the scarlet letter of lost impartiality for romancing journalists only.

From Slate

Alito, indeed no pushover on the bench, insists: “I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused.”

From Slate

“I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused,” insists Alito—who is no pushover on the bench.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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