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weak-kneed

[week-need] / ˈwikˈnid /


















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Then there are my people, weak-kneed types who, come winter, wonder whether they can survive yet another cold snap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

The contract went abroad, prompting Port Glasgow's Labour MSP Trish Godman to famously rebuke her own party colleagues in government for their "weak-kneed betrayal of the men and women at Ferguson."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

ByteDance stared it down, though, and bet that U.S. policymakers would get weak-kneed if the ban were actually about to go into effect.

From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2025

All of this may help explain the weak-kneed result, but it does not justify it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2021

A queasiness came over me and I felt weak-kneed.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia


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