Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality.
Worn and broken down by hard use.
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Examples for "weak "
Examples for "weak "
1 Rising labour costs and weak demand remained key factors constraining companies' growth.
2 Good news, since the results come during the firm's weak summer months.
3 Thousands of serious crimes have gone unpunished by Mexico's weak justice system.
4 That's partly because the weak housing market means few new construction jobs.
5 Yet threats of retaliation underscore the weak legal case of opposed countries.
1 Most of Europe suffers from record low investment and feeble productivity growth.
2 In appearance they are feeble ; in reality, copious and full of force.
3 Now, with the aid of feeble though welcome light, his courage grew.
4 The story that the candle had expired seemed feeble in the extreme.
5 It would be better to enter alone; he must not appear feeble .
1 However, CGWS has been demonstrated so far only in weakly scattering samples.
2 The MPC said the economy appeared to be growing again, albeit weakly .
3 Norine seated herself weakly ; she stared in bewilderment at the unhappy speaker.
4 I smiled weakly and answered no, but yes, yes, something was wrong.
5 George smiled weakly , still not quite back into the world of words.
1 It has the potential to completely undermine an already rickety democratic process.
2 A Florida cracker family, in a rickety wagon, stopped to help them.
3 And the rickety gig rattled merrily off in search of broken bones.
4 He has great arguments but built the most rickety of bully pulpits.
5 The room at the foot of the rickety , patched stairs was empty.
1 There is a moral issue involved in refusing care to the infirm .
2 The camp was deserted of all except the infirm and very aged.
3 Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep.
4 The mind is too infirm to be entirely occupied with higher knowledge.
5 Aged and infirm as Opechancanough was, the wound was not instantly mortal.
1 The wrong-doers followed that by which they were made sapless , and were guilty.
2 The carcass becomes a sapless mummy, a mere bit of leather.
3 Adversity has shaken them all like dead leaves from sapless branches.
4 They could never have made his sapless nature break into leafage.
5 They chew hungrily at the sapless fibre of the dead reed-stalks.
1 Too weak and faltering to be febrile, Chopin is here a debile , prematurely exhausted young man.
2 The family magazine of the literary order has been debile , so radical critics charge, since its journalistic offspring began to sweep America.
3 A little priest came in, a man scarcely thirty years of age, but thin and debile of build, with a long, seared, saffron-coloured face.
(Of a person) Very weakened or worn-down by age.
1 Tens of thousands of children enter Russia's decrepit orphanage system every year.
2 The decrepit regime Syria's president heads is getting really good at repression.
3 The second house was a converted detached garage in back, equally decrepit .
4 Its location in the middle of Dublin 4 belied its decrepit state.
5 Family after family arrives, each claiming a decrepit ancestor amid high-decibel greetings.
6 All that was back in the decrepit and languid and hopesick nineties.
7 Gretchen leads Donnie up to the front porch of the decrepit house.
8 In short, the Roman and Grecian races had become impotent and decrepit .
9 It seemed to be in the same decrepit condition as Preston's house.
10 Despite its decrepit appearance, it was the back gate to Saint-Germain's house.
11 The horse was a decrepit animal and did not go very fast.
12 Old Mayer was as decrepit as any old statue in a museum.
13 The place is so decrepit and poorly maintained the locals are rabid.
14 The interior was just as decrepit as the rest of the building.
15 The Politburo of the late 1970s was a corrupt and decrepit gerontocracy.
16 It was dusty, decrepit , and smelled faintly of sawdust and machine oil.
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