wussy

Example Sentences

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The point is, even we, the wussy day campers who couldn’t handle being outdoors or away from our families for too long, told ghost stories.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2019

Call me a wussy hippie, but what Loreen gave Hannah didn’t feel like tough love, or good mothering.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 18, 2017

I mean, what 12-year-old isn’t going to roll their eyes at the wussy parts?

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2014

There’s a tendency to jump to the conclusion that because modern parents are squeamish about violence in fiction we must be wussy and overprotective.

From Slate • Feb. 29, 2012

Then everyone started arguing about when they discovered Matt wasn’t a wussy aristocrat and when they knew he was muy gente, a great guy.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer