adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a feeble/flimsy/weak excuse (= one that is difficult to believe )
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Joe muttered some feeble excuse about having a headache.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
rather
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Call a rather feeble high-pitched whistle or whine.
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Atmospheric explosions will at best generate rather feeble tidal waves.
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Elliott's decision to dig up some rather feeble research and focus on the negative is a shining example of this.
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Song and call notes both rather feeble and twittering.
so
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It seemed so feeble and spindly floating there next to the toilet paper in the lavatory bowl.
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His health was so feeble that he went to Florida and lived for six more years.
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How could she be so ... so feeble ?
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Second, why has the political response been so feeble ?
too
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The old and infirm who were too feeble to keep up with the band were left behind to die.
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The processor he chose as the brain of his machine was clearly too feeble .
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Because the series was filmed a year ago and rightly considered too feeble to screen.
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Ole should have thought of that but he's too feeble for executive commands.
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Their chicks initially are too feeble to fly and they are unable to find food for themselves.
■ NOUN
attempt
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You can practically see it in the process of covering up the feeble attempts at civilization.
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Congress did make feeble attempts to regain its honor.
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Believe it or not - one feeble attempt by shoe manufacturers to cash in was a ridiculous boot thing like this.
excuse
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Before she could announce me, I retrieved the coat, muttered a few feeble excuses , and ran.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a feeble elderly woman in a wheelchair
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a feeble voice
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He did not remember his sister at all, except as a tiny, feeble baby.
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My grandmother's very feeble now and needs someone at home full-time to look after her.
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Sales have gone up only by a feeble 0.1 percent.
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Such a feeble case should not have gone to court.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Compare the impact of the following feeble denouement with that of Oedipus who really was incestuous!
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His health was so feeble that he went to Florida and lived for six more years.
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Nature sustains our feeble reason, and prevents it raving to this extent.
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Reproaches, accusations, sadness - perhaps even feeble blows from feeble fists.
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The smallest, feeblest stars, called M5 red dwarfs, have about 5 percent of the mass of our Sun.