wimpy
or wimp·ish
Origin of wimpy
1Other words from wimpy
- wimp·i·ness, noun
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How to use wimpy in a sentence
So the weak force may sound wimpy, but it causes the sun and all other stars to shine.
Soundbars offer a simple way to upgrade the wimpy sound your TV pumps out of its relatively tiny speakers.
Polk React Soundbar review: Alexa’s favorite affordable audio upgrade | Billy Cadden | July 29, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAlthough his creation might be more dangerous than the original mouse-adapted virus he’d used as a backbone, it was still wimpy compared with SARS—certainly not the supervirus Senator Paul would later suggest.
Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan | Rowan Jacobsen | June 29, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewIn one episode, a wimpy male character is married off to a female Viking warrior about a foot taller than he is.
It’s true: Waking up is hard to do, especially when there’s a smartphone involved | John Kelly | November 22, 2020 | Washington PostNor am I one of those pathetic “men” too wimpy to handle the grit of parenthood.
Muscular atheism has arrived; “left behind is the idealized vision of wimpy, effete philosophers.”
Atheist Philosopher Peter Boghossian’s Guide to Converting Believers | Michael Schulson | November 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut in each of these cases, the moves were defensive and wimpy, aimed at preserving eroding positions and not getting hurt.
Well-trained men with thermal-vision goggles and high powered rifles couldn't handle a few wimpy little deer.
The Hollywood Reporter: “Oz the wimpy and Weak would be more like it.”
What Critics Are Saying About ‘Oz: The Great and Powerful’ | Marlow Stern | March 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWell, when wimpy and Goldy looked out the windows and saw what was coming, it was all off.
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