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Synonyms for weakling

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Synonyms for weakling

a person who behaves in a childish, weak, or spoiled way

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Synonyms for weakling

a person who is physically weak and ineffectual

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Love cannot go wrong unless it be a weakling that faints and stumbles by the way."
Had I been a weakling of a child, I am confident that it would have killed me.
These are the seven-stone weaklings of yore, who wear shirts whilst sunbathing on the hottest day of the year.
This is no time for weaklings like those who parrot the Roman Catholic Church's line against the death penalty.
I SPENT five weeks on a very fascinating adventure, but not for weaklings, the faint hearted or moaners.
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Summary: The head of a powerful Shiite militia Sunday criticized "weaklings" in the Iraqi army who want U.S.-led airstrikes to support the massive operation to retake Tikrit from jihadis.
Young Julia follows her dad in turning their back on those "weaklings" who sail from the island never to return, and Iain promises to stay with her there forever.
Grow up, pathetic, overly-sensitive weaklings. You are a joke.
Hilbert told Bloomberg that the attempt was 'like four nine-pound weaklings running into a Sumo wrestler.'
"She came round to the team hotel and did her thing, but unfortunately it didn't work," said Jones, who was a helpless spectator at Sophia Gardens as the Aussies butchered England's Ashes weaklings.
We speak of the Vermont Senate, which earlier this month actually took up a resolution that, in the words of one supporter, calls out its New Hampshire counterpart as "a bunch of weaklings." And it wasn't because they won a World's Strongest Legislator competition.
Anne Robinson oversees the back-stabbing general knowledge quiz, as contestants try to weed out the weaklings and walk off with a cash prize.
NIGERIA boss Ladan Bosso branded Scotland as World Cup weaklings after their defeat from Japan.