weak-willed
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of weak-willed
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Other notable singers included bass-baritone Robert Frazier as the Rev. John Hale, who realizes the truth too late, and soprano Kresley Figueroa as the treacherously weak-willed Mary Warren.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Greg — a stick-figure with Jughead-esque askew smile and a Charlie Brown wisp of hair — can be weak-willed and secretly nasty, especially toward Rowley.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
The problem, Kristof and WuDunn emphasize, is not that Kevin — or the Knapp children, or any of the others whose large and small tragedies are recounted in “Tightrope” — is abnormally weak-willed or irresponsible.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2020
"I was weak-willed at the time," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2015
If Jenna Fox was a weak-willed coward, I don’t want to be her at all.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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