Wimpish

Definition

wimp /wÇmp/ n ( infml derog ) ေပ်ာ့တိေပ်ာ့ညံ့ႏွင့္ ေၾကာက္တတ္သူ။ ငေၾကာက္။ Don't be such a wimp, of course you won't fall off! ❏ wimpish adj ( infml derog ) တြန္႔ဆုတ္ ေၾကာက္ရြံ႕ေသာ။ wimpish behaviour.

Examples

1. ‘The Christian life is not for wimps
2. loafers or weaklings.’
3. ‘This is not a game for wimps
4. quitters
5. or the easily-bruised: there will be no quick fixes.’
6. ‘These if-onlys seemed clever arguments at the time
7. because the administration kept thundering that diplomacy was for wimps and Congress was being meddlesome in trying to constrain the commander in chief.’
8. ‘‘The men here are wimps
9. ’ the hotel receptionist said scornfully.’
10. ‘Consequently
11. compared with wild mice
12. lab mice are wimps - slower
13. weaker
14. and less active - even if both have lived their entire lives in cages the size of a shoe box.’
15. ‘And the cowards and wimps don't do a single thing about it.’
16. ‘When I was finally able to leave
17. after thanking the teacher like a cowardly wimp
18. I wondered whether the just-concluded event was a meeting of parents or a lecture on them.’
19. ‘I can't stand namby-pamby wimps; it's my working-class background.’
20. ‘She had to harden herself so that she could get on with life instead of acting like a wimp
21. a selfish wimp at that.’
22. ‘Only wimps and wusses blamed their misfortune on others - real men made their own fortune.’
23. ‘These days tram travel isn't half as cool - the trams are for wimps
24. with heating
25. doors
26. and no chance of enjoying a ride on the running board and getting yourself killed by falling off it like in days of yore.’
27. ‘In Idaho
28. nine-to-four lift hours are for wimps.’
29. ‘Again
30. this is another case of the wimps leading the wimps.’
31. ‘It's shocking that so few have raised doubts and that the ones who have are called wimps
32. traitors and worse
33. with their lives threatened by cowards hiding behind anonymous letters and phone calls.’
34. ‘To the local reporters
35. guys from Texas
36. the visiting journalistic prima donnas are just a bunch of Washington media wimps
37. whining about the heat.’
38. ‘Boys who don't conform are ridiculed
39. called wimps and wusses.’
40. ‘And they have concluded that one way to show that we are not in fact a party of wimps and sissies is to call out the Republicans.’
41. ‘Liberals were seen as weak-kneed wimps
42. unwilling to use force internationally and preoccupied with social welfare internally; local patriotisms prevailed everywhere.’
43. ‘In some ways I am just a scared little guy
44. a wimp.’
45. ‘Sometimes
46. especially at National Review
47. the animus against braininess has overlapped with a crusade for traditional manliness - the idea being that book learning is for wimps.’