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Weak-kneed   /wik-nid/   Listen
Weak-kneed

adjective
1.
Lacking will power or resolution.





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"Weak-kneed" Quotes from Famous Books



... general that each well-to-do family shall send a portion of its Christmas loaf—the pan calendau—to some friend or neighbour to whom Fortune has been less kind. But, happily, this gift nowadays often is a mere friendly compliment, like the gift of fougasso; for the times are past when weak-kneed and spasmodic charity dealt with ...
— The Christmas Kalends of Provence - And Some Other Provencal Festivals • Thomas A. Janvier
... necessary perhaps to follow the Duchess through the period of her eclipse; to watch the weak-kneed Charles sink deeper and deeper into the morass of his disloyalty until, in return for a subsidy of L4,000,000, he offered to dissolve parliament and to make England the bond-slave of Louis's designs on Europe; or to see Louise, the chief instrument of all this ignominy, reach ...
— Love Romances of the Aristocracy • Thornton Hall


Words linked to "Weak-kneed" :   irresolute


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