as in fragile
chronically or repeatedly suffering from poor health
a weakly baby who required repeated hospitalizations
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as in feebly
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weakly
Adjective
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This refusal could lead to a crisis with both Hamas and Egypt, the key mediator, at a delicate time for the already fragile truce.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2025 -
Hours before talks began, an Israeli official said the country would not withdraw from a strategic corridor in the Gaza Strip as called for under the cease-fire, a refusal that could severely complicate negotiations with Hamas and key mediator Egypt at a sensitive moment for the fragile truce.—
Mohammad Jahjouh,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Salesforce shares fell in extended trading Wednesday on mixed quarterly results and weak guidance.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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There aren’t enough affordable ones and the charging infrastructure is weak.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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He was wheeled into the courtroom Friday, visibly frail and hunched over.—
Essence News Editors,
Essence,
17 Feb. 2025
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The three male hostages released last Saturday appeared gaunt and frail, and Israelis reacted with anger and horror at their appearance.—
Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Larry Shapiro, Calgary, Alberta Hamas has no conscience Seeing the sickly, gaunt faces of the three Israeli hostages released by Hamas in Gaza on Feb. 8 presented a clear picture of the loathing and deep hostility their abductors felt for them.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The website collects your personal information and then asks you for payment methods, telling you that each one you input is invalid.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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Yoon’s lawyers have also repeatedly argued that his arrest was politically motivated and that the warrant was invalid because of flaws in the way the investigation was conducted.—
Mike Valerio,
CNN,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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One family has a sick child who could be heard crying in the background during a call between Herischi and Panamanian officials.—
Yong Xiong, Michael Rios, CNN and Ivonne Valdés,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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Gazans cheer, blast music as Hamas conducts sick parade of hostages Hamas paraded Israeli hostages Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov and Omer Wenkert in front of a cheering crowd Saturday, before releasing them after more than 500 days in captivity.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Jobson, the college sophomore, fainted on deck, and Ward Weimar, the Dartmouth student, became too feeble to handle the wheel.—
David Wolman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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Breath fogs the air, ice slicks the roads, and the sun seems a distant, feeble glow in the winter sky.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Weakly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weakly. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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