Synonyms & Antonyms for weakling

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Examples of weakling in a Sentence

he had been a weakling until high school, when he started working out to put on muscle only a weakling would be willing to lie to save himself from punishment

Recent Examples on the Web Ross Douthat, a conservative columnist at the New York Times, predicted before the election that Trump would turn out looking more a weakling than an autocrat. — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020 Arkansas and five other states require weakling governors who can be overridden by simple majorities. — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 7 Mar. 2021 In nature, a lame duck is a weakling, a bird that can’t keep up with the flock and is easy pickings for predators. — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2020 Experts say the storm may be slow-moving but is hardly a weakling. — Daniel Cusick, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2020 At other times, Trump has contradicted his own administration’s policy, expressing a willingness to talk with Maduro and dismissing Guaidó as a weakling. — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020 Belittlement signals solidarity to the base, conveys the impression of Democrats as weaklings and illegitimates, and tacitly asserts the über-legitimacy of Republican ideology and interests. — Joseph O’neill, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2020 Were Harry and Meghan millennial weaklings retreating into self-care and self-pity, unwilling to withstand the scrutiny of their public life in exchange for the material luxury of their private one? — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020 Against a backdrop of a slowing growth elsewhere, Greece is far from the weakling of Europe that was on the brink of bankruptcy just a few years ago. — Stelios Bouras, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2020

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