weak-minded
adjective
having or showing a lack of mental firmness; irresolute; vacillating.
weak-mindedness
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a word derived from
weak-minded.
Example Sentences
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On "Woke Up New," the Mountain Goats channeled the claustrophobic uncertainty that stems from abandonment, the protagonist's weak-mindedness evoking the neurotic George Costanza of "Seinfeld" fame.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 6, 2011
But an unequal partition from angry impulse, or weak-mindedness, has no validity.
From Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya by Edward Röer
Mrs. Ellis did not like the trouble of children herself, but through her weak-mindedness she certainly did what she could to make them a trouble to other people.
From Aunt Mary by Mrs. Perring
There is no mark of the immense weak-mindedness of modernity that is more striking than this general disposition to keep up old forms, but to keep them up informally and feebly.
From All Things Considered by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
He, rough in dress and manners and regarding "dudishness" as unfailing proof of weak-mindedness, had set down the fashionable Arthur, with his Harvard accent and his ignorance of affairs, as an unmitigated ass.
From The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips
