adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a weedy lawn
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a weedy young man
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Mouse got his nickname because he was small and weedy .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At dawn, on a weedy Michigan lake, ten thousand mallards fidget.
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Away to the left, axes and saws were at work, weedy saplings falling.
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Both of them were easy victims: where she was slow and tongue-tied, he was short and physically weedy .
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Her weedy children would scamper up to practice karate in the clearing of his property.
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I went back and pulled into the weedy drive.
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Little weedy feller, looks as though he's only got one in him and that one's holding him together.
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What concerns them is the risk that engineered plants might acquire weedy traits and escape from cultivation.
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Yet, human-made industry is a weedy thing that threatens to overcome the natural sphere that ultimately supports it.