wuss
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wusses
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I’m about to dismiss this guide as a wuss when a sudden burst of deafening growls just beyond the edge of our campsite lends credence to his words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Now, back to the jokes: What a wuss.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2024
Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
My girlfriend, Rachel, who is not a food wuss like me, unhesitatingly and hopefully tried the stuff.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2021
JonPaul plays football, basketball and baseball and is roughly the size of a half-ton Chevy pickup, but he’s a total wuss about his health.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
And actually maybe the Oath Keepers, those guys are such wusses, they might’ve been nervous.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2024
College kids are called wimpy, wusses, whiners, babies, and, in the words of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes.”
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2019
Meanwhile, us wusses are cowering under our sheets.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2019
Mice, for their part, can’t taunt other mice or call them wusses; still, the presence of peers is enough to stimulate risky behavior.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2015
But what she’s really saying is that we’re both wusses.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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