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weakling

/week-ling/US // ˈwik lɪŋ //UK // (ˈwiːklɪŋ) //

弱者,软弱的人,矮子,怯懦

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is physically or morally weak.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : weak; not strong.

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Examples

  • She thought Ethelred such a whinging weakling as a child that she regularly beat, him her weapon of choice being candles.

  • And no wonder they despise Obama, who they view as a weakling, a loser, and a pushover.

  • Weakling that I am, I think I will give Clinton the benefit of the doubt one last time.

  • Should the hawks be vindicated in their vision of the president (or any Democrat, really) as a foreign-policy weakling?

  • Lyn was no chicken-hearted weakling, to sit down and weep unavailingly in time of peril.

  • She comes to the individual man, as she came to me and asks, Is she a cherished weakling or an equal mate, an unavoidable helper?

  • Against such a foe the unconscious weakling on the rock there, calmly puffing his cigar, would have no chance whatever.

  • Afterwards she had done everything possible to show the world she had chosen a man instead of a weakling.

  • The man who pays beforehand shows himself a weakling, he is afraid of himself, he is afraid he cannot hold the money.