: a weak, cowardly, or ineffectual person
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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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The real star of the show is, of course, Battle Cat, the giant green armored tiger whose alias is Cringer, Prince Adam’s wimp of a house cat.
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Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 22 Jan. 2026
Wes Siler, our longtime outdoor lifestyle columnist, is a total wimp who obsessively pursues comfort in extreme environments.
—Wes Siler, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
The opposite of a wimp is a Superman, the comic book creation of writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Schuster.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
Otherwise, they are destined to be remembered as useless and timid wimps as the U.S. was slouching toward a dictatorship.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025
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Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 22 Jan. 2026
Wes Siler, our longtime outdoor lifestyle columnist, is a total wimp who obsessively pursues comfort in extreme environments.
—Wes Siler, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
The opposite of a wimp is a Superman, the comic book creation of writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Schuster.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
Otherwise, they are destined to be remembered as useless and timid wimps as the U.S. was slouching toward a dictatorship.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for wimp
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“Wimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wimp. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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