If you describe someone as ~, you are criticizing them for being weak and powerless. (FORMAL)
...the charming but ~ Russian gentry of the 1840s and 1850s.
ADJ disapproval
If you describe someone as ~, you are criticizing them for being weak and powerless. (FORMAL)
...the charming but ~ Russian gentry of the 1840s and 1850s.
ADJ disapproval
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012