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  • adjective characteristic of a wimp

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  • adjective weak and ineffectual

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Examples

  • I consider my options,1. leave, this seemed the most logical, but I didn´t want to be known as the wimpish English girl, 2. ask one of the guides to stand guard over my bed as I slept, but this might seem a little improper, they already talked in innuendoes, 3. just accept that sometimes in life you get pooed upon.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • When the report on the private-equity sector, led by Sir David Walker, the former chairman of Morgan Stanley's international business, was published at the end of last year, a powerful U.K. parliamentary committee attacked it as "wimpish" and "watered down."

    London Cabbies 2008

  • “Most Americans do not expect their presidents to be Caspar Milquetoasts,” the pollster Whit Ayres said, referring to the wimpish cartoon character created by Harold Tucker Webster in 1924, but “they also don’t want him flying off the handle at inopportune times.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “Most Americans do not expect their presidents to be Caspar Milquetoasts,” the pollster Whit Ayres said, referring to the wimpish cartoon character created by Harold Tucker Webster in 1924, but “they also don’t want him flying off the handle at inopportune times.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “Most Americans do not expect their presidents to be Caspar Milquetoasts,” the pollster Whit Ayres said, referring to the wimpish cartoon character created by Harold Tucker Webster in 1924, but “they also don’t want him flying off the handle at inopportune times.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “Most Americans do not expect their presidents to be Caspar Milquetoasts,” the pollster Whit Ayres said, referring to the wimpish cartoon character created by Harold Tucker Webster in 1924, but “they also don’t want him flying off the handle at inopportune times.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • There needs to be a credible deterrent to mouthing off like this, or everyone will start doing it. idea that Barack Obama's declaration that America will not use nuclear weapons first against adversaries who do not possess nuclear weapons represents some kind of wimpish act of playground self-abnegation is rather absurd.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • The Tamino-Pamina love story, in Mr. Brook's version, is credible and not at all wimpish, thanks to Antonio Figueroa's Tamino and Agnieszka Lawinska's outstandingly sung Pamina.

    A Magical 'Flute' Without the Fanfare Paul Levy 2011

  • His otherworldliness has long relegated him to the role of a "rather wimpish junior partner" to the more robust figure of William Morris in the Arts and Crafts movement.

    A Penchant for Dreaming Henrik Bering 2012

  • But even the older ones could not manage even a wimpish: "Excusez-moi, parlez vous anglais?"

    Yes, I really want to be alone | Viv Groskop 2011

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