: a weak, cowardly, or ineffectual person
Examples of wimp in a Sentence
just because you can't lift 300 pounds doesn't mean you're a wimp
what kind of wimp would just give in to peer pressure?
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But the character, in Groening’s view, turned out to be a wimp.
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Darryn King, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
The hard labor of making Wabanaki baskets Wabanaki basket-making isn’t for wimps.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
Compared to 88-year-old percussion master Pete Escovedo, Keith Sweat, John Michael Montgomery, Frankie Beverly and the members of the Eagles and Aventura seem like, well, wimps.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
Blake is not an emasculated wimp; his confidence is complete, his suavity bordering on the toxic.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
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Darryn King, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
The hard labor of making Wabanaki baskets Wabanaki basket-making isn’t for wimps.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
Compared to 88-year-old percussion master Pete Escovedo, Keith Sweat, John Michael Montgomery, Frankie Beverly and the members of the Eagles and Aventura seem like, well, wimps.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
Blake is not an emasculated wimp; his confidence is complete, his suavity bordering on the toxic.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
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“Wimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wimp. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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