wuss
Example Sentences
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Now, back to the jokes: What a wuss.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2024
For me, I’d rather go to the automobile museum, but that’s because I’m a wuss.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024
When it comes to food, I am adventurous in my tastes, but I am a wuss about heat — a connoisseur of blandness.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2021
Electricity, do not enter,’ is a buzzkill, so you change it to ‘Danger! Electricity, but maybe you’ll get superpowers, get in here you wuss!’
From The Guardian • May 21, 2020
“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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
