weak-headed
AmericanOther Word Forms
- weak-headedly adverb
- weak-headedness noun
Etymology
Origin of weak-headed
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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I’ve seen this kind of weak-headed apologia over and over on the Internet.
From Slate
It may mean, that not being a strong-headed man, he necessarily belonged to the other category, and was a weak-headed man.
From Project Gutenberg
This the youth promised to do, and our friend Robert congratulated himself upon his success in saving his well-meaning but rather weak-headed cousin from certain ruin.
From Project Gutenberg
She cared for me—that is certain, but some reports when I was about nineteen to the effect that I was raising the devil, and had led a weak-headed fellow astray with me, seemed to give the girl a permanent twist against me.
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Weak-headed nervousness to believe in such a thing!
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