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Definition of "wimpish" [wimpish]

  • Characteristic of a wimp (adjective)

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Use "wimpish" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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.""
  • "“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.”"
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