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wimpish

/wim-pee/US // ˈwɪm pi //

懦弱,懦弱的,胆小怕事,窝囊废

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    wimp·i·er, wimp·i·est.

    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of a wimp.

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Examples

  • Soundbars offer a simple way to upgrade the wimpy sound your TV pumps out of its relatively tiny speakers.

  • Although his creation might be more dangerous than the original mouse-adapted virus he’d used as a backbone, it was still wimpy compared with SARS—certainly not the supervirus Senator Paul would later suggest.

  • In one episode, a wimpy male character is married off to a female Viking warrior about a foot taller than he is.

  • Nor am I one of those pathetic “men” too wimpy to handle the grit of parenthood.

  • Muscular atheism has arrived; “left behind is the idealized vision of wimpy, effete philosophers.”

  • But in each of these cases, the moves were defensive and wimpy, aimed at preserving eroding positions and not getting hurt.

  • Well-trained men with thermal-vision goggles and high powered rifles couldn't handle a few wimpy little deer.

  • The Hollywood Reporter: “Oz the Wimpy and Weak would be more like it.”

  • Well, when Wimpy and Goldy looked out the windows and saw what was coming, it was all off.