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weak-willed

[week-wild] / ˈwikˈwɪld /


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Other notable singers included bass-baritone Robert Frazier as the Rev. John Hale, who realizes the truth too late, and soprano Kresley Figueroa as the treacherously weak-willed Mary Warren.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

“Succession” is the story of an overbearing right-wing media mogul and his weak-willed children.

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2020

The problem, Kristof and WuDunn emphasize, is not that Kevin — or the Knapp children, or any of the others whose large and small tragedies are recounted in “Tightrope” — is abnormally weak-willed or irresponsible.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2020

"I was weak-willed at the time," he says.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2015

He squeezed harder, silencing that weak-willed strain inside him.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo




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