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UK
/wˈiːklɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈwikɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈwikɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is physically weak and ineffectual
How To Use weakling In A Sentence
- In a 1983 ad, the Gillette man was depicted as the tiny weakling on a basketball court full of giants; his shaver, he said, helped him even the odds.
- He could not recall Plauen having talked much about the modern Empire, except to label it a weakling, lost in fantasies of its past, battling for life in a hostile age, constantly stalked by hostile intrigues. The Swordbearer
- She could recall the total disgust that she had felt towards such a cowardly weakling who would cry before his peers; it was revolting.
- They were barely able to drag themselves back to camp like the pathetic weaklings and cowards they are.
- Dare to challenge this mantra and you are likely to be vilified as a backward-looking weakling.
- They were barely able to drag themselves back to camp like the pathetic weaklings and cowards they are.
- Far from being a national icon, Bonaparte is a weakling, a coward, a sluggard, and an ignoramus.
- To those who know him, he isn't a novelty act or a weakling who couldn't hack the rigours of the infantry.
- The weakling is he in whose forceless nature one serpent after another writhes its head up, dominant for a moment only, doomed to be thrust down by another fancy as fickle. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
- The reality is that this whole war on terror is the war of weaklings.