Meanings
comparative more weakminded · superlative most weakminded
- alternativeAlternative spelling of weak-minded.
An aroma of fraud hung about it, and only a weakminded person would waste time on it.
2001, Upton Sinclair, Presidential Agent I - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 2183 more examples
They appeal to the brave gens and gens braves as opposed to the "weakminded" and "dishonest" politicians and they assume that those once ready to die for the fatherland should again unite in the spirit of battleground comradeship
1961, J. A. Laponce, The Government of the Fifth Republic, page 158It didn't help that here, even more than back home, the promise of justice was little more than reassurance for the weakminded.
2006, Andrew Fish, Erasmus Hobart and the Golden Arrow, →ISBN, page 61Existing studies of such institutions show that different institutional situations resulted in different ways of classifying weakminded inmates.
1994, Michael Clark, Catherine Crawford, Legal Medicine in History, →ISBN, page 234
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