: 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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Otherwise, they are destined to be remembered as useless and timid wimps as the U.S. was slouching toward a dictatorship.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025
Your wimp of a husband should be there during this conversation.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 16 June 2025
Share The patriarch of the Berenstain Bears’ family is not a wimp.
—Gregory M. Collins, National Review, 15 June 2025
Whoopi Goldberg doesn't want to raise a generation of wimps, thank you very much.
—Joey Nolfi Published, EW.com, 11 June 2025
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025
Your wimp of a husband should be there during this conversation.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 16 June 2025
Share The patriarch of the Berenstain Bears’ family is not a wimp.
—Gregory M. Collins, National Review, 15 June 2025
Whoopi Goldberg doesn't want to raise a generation of wimps, thank you very much.
—Joey Nolfi Published, EW.com, 11 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 15 Jul. 2025.
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