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
The contract went abroad, prompting Port Glasgow's Labour MSP Trish Godman to famously rebuke her own party colleagues in government for their "weak-kneed betrayal of the men and women at Ferguson."
From BBC • Sep. 13, 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
All of this may help explain the weak-kneed result, but it does not justify it.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2021
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
