wuss
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Maybe you’re a fellow weather wuss or you had a pandemic baby who hasn’t seen much of the indoor world yet.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
This excerpt makes him look like a wuss!
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2022
My girlfriend, Rachel, who is not a food wuss like me, unhesitatingly and hopefully tried the stuff.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2021
I remember the dizziness, headaches, et. al. and being told to "get back in there" or I was some kind of wuss.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
It was the only way I could avoid looking like a total wuss.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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