weak-kneed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.44 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Lacking will power or strength of character; timid.
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see weak, kneed.
Example Sentences
- "It is incontrovertible that the children grow up into rotten adults, without virility or stamina, a weak-kneed, narrow-chested, listless breed, that crumples up and goes down in the brute struggle for life."
- "What these teenagers are weighing is at the very heart of Gandhian philosophy: "His absolute insistence on nonviolence, which young men see as pussyfooted and weak-kneed and — dare I say — feminine and hence not macho enough," says Guha, the biographer."