: 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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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.
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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
All nudity in my films is a result of Shauna pushing me and calling me a wimp.
—Alexandra Hurtado, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
Russo explored a subject that had previously been viewed by moviegoers simply as the way things were — the treatment of gay people as pansies and wimps, perverts and tragedies, serial killers and suicides.
—Mark Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
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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
All nudity in my films is a result of Shauna pushing me and calling me a wimp.
—Alexandra Hurtado, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
Russo explored a subject that had previously been viewed by moviegoers simply as the way things were — the treatment of gay people as pansies and wimps, perverts and tragedies, serial killers and suicides.
—Mark Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
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“Wimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wimp. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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