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  • adverb In a wimpish manner.

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wimpish +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I can only say, rather wimpishly, that both are good.

    On Doris Lessing « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Tanya de Grunwald, who runs the Graduate Fog website which campaigns for interns' rights, said: "Many managers continue to hide wimpishly behind the defence that they are offering these opportunities out of the goodness of their hearts, in order to give young people the chance to gain some experience."

    Almost one in five British businesses admit using interns as cheap labour 2011

  • Readers of Nathaniel Hawthorne ' s diaries will be reassured to know that, when he complains in 1859 of the discomfort inflicted by receiving " a handful of confetti, right slap in my face " during the Carnival in Rome, he isn ' t, wimpishly, referring to colorful bits of paper.

    Savory Obscurities 2010

  • IMHO The congress has simply wimpishly seceded their constitutional prerogatives over to the Supremes.

    Professor John McGinnis on originalism. Ann Althouse 2009

  • But Maher shies away from nothing, and asks why it should be that atheists (OK, he does shy away quite wimpishly from the word atheist, but that's what he means) should not feel safe expressing their views in public.

    That's Religulous 2008

  • Were Democrats really against the war when it started or were they wimpishly “feared” into it like most of us?

    Philocrites: The failed war. 2005

  • Graduate Fog website which campaigns for interns' rights, said: Many managers continue to hide wimpishly behind the defence that they are offering these opportunities out of the goodness of their hearts, in order to give young people the chance to gain some experience.

    The Guardian World News Shiv Malik 2011

  • Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum rather wimpishly said they, too, would have been watching the football.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Jon Swaine 2012

  • This year's halfpounder run started off with a bang and ended somewhat wimpishly, resulting in a drop from last year's returns of these immature steelhead to the Rogue River.

    MailTribune.com Latest Headlines 2009

  • There's clan support, naturally, and you can bet "Valour Points" awarded for clan wins on the outcome of tournaments, or sign on wimpishly as a Spectator to learn from the best.

    Kikizo.com Video Games Website XML Feed 2008

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