weakling

Example Sentences

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Former Big Ten weakling Indiana defied all conventional wisdom to become the nation’s only undefeated team and claim its first-ever No. 1 ranking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Don’t get me wrong: J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s legendary founding director, would view Patel as a contemptible weakling.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2025

The U.S. economy is not a 90-pound weakling when it comes to manufacturing muscle.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2023

If other dimensions exist, however, gravity may not be the weakling it seems to us, because some of its force could be leaking into these other strange dimensions.

From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2023

To them he was not an undersized, scared weakling.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda