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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Most of the kids were weaklings and were frightened of getting in a fight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An older historiographical tradition depicted Louis as an impulsive weakling , at the mercy of his overbearing wife.
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He advised her badly, and she married a weakling .
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Her own father had been as much of a weakling as her husband subsequently became.
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Of course, there had to be the barrack weakling .
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She despised the weakling sentiments of Ewan Famber.
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She married a weakling who turned into a bankrupt, and in helping save her husband she bankrupted her uncle.
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Violence disenfranchises all weaklings, including children, old people-and women.
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We wheedled the book ourselves out of that gullible weakling Fleming over at Dull.