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- noun informal The state or condition of being
wussy ;weakness ,ineffectualness .
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Examples
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Quite simply and sadly, this tragic passion play is an exercise of deeply ingrained Democratic "wussiness" and sexism.
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It is a rare moment when a snowstorm-prompted game postponement turns into a referendum on the nation's level of "wussiness," but such is the occasion when someone slips a radio microphone near the mouth of Pennsylvania Gov.
NYT > Home Page By LYNN ZINSER 2010
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For pete's sake, if Pa. cannot vote against Arlen after all his years there in the Senate betraying conservs and other Reagan Dems with his wussiness, then the Republic is dead.
Pennsylvania Senate hopeful releases fundraising totals 2010
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I mostly tune out the complains about soccer diving and soccer players 'general wussiness, because they're all the same, like complaints about high taxes or traffic or Albert Haynesworth.
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But if you wanted to put soccer on blast for wussiness, calling crybabies "the scourge of sport" is a pretty good start.
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I guess that makes me the resident expert on wussiness.
BSNYC Frigedæg Blētsung Cunnian! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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My wussiness was met with disdain, but once I explained the situation, Andrew understood.
Adventures With the Stinky Cheese Man: Andrew From Andrew's Cheese Shop 2010
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My wussiness was met with disdain, but once I explained the situation, Andrew understood.
Claire Thomas: Adventures With the Stinky Cheese Man: Andrew From Andrew's Cheese Shop 2010
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I think one of the most refreshing things about the Obama campaign is the competence and crispness of it all after 7 years of Bush and the wussiness and ineptness of Kerry.
Obama Campaign Hits Back Hard Against Hillary's "Security Mom" Ad 2009
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The whole thing is sickening — a kind of nausea-inducing feeling that comes on me whenever I hear the last screeched line of the “Star-Spangled Banner” — but there is something particularly pathetic about this latest bout of collective wussiness on the part of the American people.
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