weak-mindedness
Example Sentences
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On "Woke Up New," the Mountain Goats channeled the claustrophobic uncertainty that stems from abandonment, the protagonist's weak-mindedness evoking the neurotic George Costanza of "Seinfeld" fame.
From Chicago Tribune • Apr. 6, 2011
He, rough in dress and manners and regarding "dudishness" as unfailing proof of weak-mindedness, had set down the fashionable Arthur, with his Harvard accent and his ignorance of affairs, as an unmitigated ass.
From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham
As Wordsworth has it, "Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness!"
From Love's Pilgrimage by Sinclair, Upton
But an unequal partition from angry impulse, or weak-mindedness, has no validity.
From Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya by Edward Röer
Even Mary's scorn was unprepared for this weak-mindedness.
From New Faces by Neagle, Charles F.
