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22 words match “WEAKLY”

WEAKLY a. 2 definitions
Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.
COWARDLY a.
Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. Shak.
DOTE v.
To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child. Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. Shak. What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. Pope.
DRIBBER n.
One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly. [Obs.] Ascham.
DRIBBLE v.
To fall weakly and slowly. [Obs.] "The dribbling dart of love." Shak. (Meas. for Meas. , i. 3, 2). [Perhaps an error for dribbing.]
EFFEMINATELY adv.
In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay." Fawkes.
FALTER v.
To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. With faltering speech and visage incomposed. Milton.
FOND a.
Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.
FRAILLY adv.
Weakly; infirmly.
GOODY-GOODY a.
Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [Colloq.]
GUSHING a.
Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental. [Colloq.]
GUSHINGLY n.
Weakly; sentimentally; effusively. [Colloq.]
ILL adv.
In a ill manner; badly; weakly. How ill this taper burns! Shak. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.
INSERT v.
assage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These words were very weakly inserted where they will be so liable to misconstruction. Bp. Stillingfleet.
MOONY a.
Silly; weakly sentimental. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.
MUSHY a.
Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental. She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. G. Eliot.
NAMBY-PAMBY n. 2 definitions
Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay.
SIMPLY adv.
Weakly; foolishly. Johnson.
SNIVEL v.
To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly. Put stop to thy sniveling ditty. Sir W. Scott.
SOLID a.
Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body. I. Watts.
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