Ford was no moral weakling except, perhaps, when whisky and he came to hand-grips.

I do despise a moral weakling, Ford.

But he was by no means the moral weakling that the unimaginative and somewhat puritanical Grant had supposed.

She resented being warned and cautioned, as if she were some moral weakling who could not be trusted to make the most obvious distinctions.

They are usually regarded as moral weaklings, and it is the fashion of saints to despise them.