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weak-willed

adjective as in easily swayed

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And, as researchers are finding, they are already toppling the belief that obesity is simply a moral failing of the weak-willed.

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And, of course, he tells them about Martha, the angel and the devil on his shoulders: sometimes telling him how sweet, funny and handsome he is, and sometimes calling him a weak-willed, talentless degenerate.

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But Israel has continued its “high-intensity” air strikes, making him seem both complicit and weak-willed.

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“This is not for the weak-willed,” said Fitch, who is president of the Obesity Medicine Association and also consults for drugmakers.

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We should also respect present humans as rational beings capable of independent thought, rather than weak-willed zombies susceptible to crude verbal mind control.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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