wuss
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This excerpt makes him look like a wuss!
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2022
My girlfriend, Rachel, who is not a food wuss like me, unhesitatingly and hopefully tried the stuff.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2021
Gottlieb is a public figure who essentially said that Luck, a man who suffered a lacerated kidney, shoulder surgery and a concussion, among other injuries, is a wuss just like most of his generation.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2019
I admitted myself indeed a wuss, as the last set was not scheduled to start until sunrise, and jumped on my bike.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2017
“Not because I’m a do-gooder but because I’m a big giant wuss who no one wants to have around. So there, now you know.”
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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And actually maybe the Oath Keepers, those guys are such wusses, they might’ve been nervous.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2024
College kids are called wimpy, wusses, whiners, babies, and, in the words of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes.”
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2019
Meanwhile, us wusses are cowering under our sheets.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2019
Mice, for their part, can’t taunt other mice or call them wusses; still, the presence of peers is enough to stimulate risky behavior.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2015
But what she’s really saying is that we’re both wusses.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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