weak-kneed
Example Sentences
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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
Wish You Were Dead is about a relationship that veers between being affectionate and volatile; while in Big Brown Eyes, Young gets weak-kneed when a lukewarm love interest insults her.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 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
Ohtani has the most weak-kneed and worthless advisors in the history of advisors.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024
Hours later, they would return, breathless and weak-kneed and trembling, not understanding where they’d been, but knowing they’d been somewhere too impossible to exist.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
