Namby-pamby person

Usage examples of wimp.

Not only was she a despicable, needy-for-a-man wimp, but there was a chance - admittedly small - that she had upset Katherine.

Minuten lang kon zij zich spiegelen, glimlachend met de fijne punt van den roziggenagelden vinger de lijn van wenkbrauw en wimper streelend, zich de oogleden een weinig amandelvormig vertrekkende, of heure bruine haren woest om zich heen warrelende, in de houding eener schalke zingara.

And company man and sell-out boy and wimp and twonk that Sandra might have thought I was.

They were considered by the military to be mostly pinkos, wimps, and bleeding hearts.

The wounded vatos I saw that night might not know a pancreas from a lung, but they were secure in the assumption that the doctor - a four-eyed wimp of the type they habitually stare down on the street - knew both nephrology and pneumonology.

To them, divemasters like him were pampered, underskilled wimps who liked clear water and clean sand.

They were considered by the military to be mostly pinkos, wimps, and bleeding hearts.

She had wimped out something awful tonight, and that could not be allowed to go on.

The Bustee is a quarter Chodo Contague wouldn’t enter without an army, let alone wimps like the Watch.

The Bustee is a quarter Chodo Contague wouldnt enter without an army, let alone wimps like the Watch.

Marcus, who was at Bagley Hall with Flora, was a wimp only ambition egged on by his mother, Rupert's first wife, was to be a concert pianist.

The chief just nodded, assigned Belga and the wimp to look into the possibility.

This unnamed newcomer clearly thought that Jessie's usual source of advice — the voice she had over the years come to think of as Goodwife Burlingame ­was a wimp of the highest order.

Phillip decided he wouldn't have to worry about a couple of wimps that the do-gooders had raised.

When everybody was ready they plugged feedlines from big nutrient tanks into the wimp, connected her ureter and anus to evacuator lines, and jumped back.