weak-willed

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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

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

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024

The performers fling themselves into dumb and painful stunts on purpose, and blissfully weak-willed audience members cackle knowing that their laughter is proof that they haven’t grown up either.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022

The rather weak-willed Henry doesn’t know what to believe.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2016

For only an instant he glimpsed, at the center of the man’s weak-willed soul, a great kindness.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer