wussification

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noun

The act or process of wussifying.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounwussification (uncountable)
  1. slanguncountableThe act or process of wussifying.

    The wussification of Texas is all about those little things.

    2005, The American Interest, Volume 1, page 96
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    The tone, I think, reflects my general sense of growing wussification after deserting my old job at Les Halles.

    2006, Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones, →ISBN, page 273

    That's because the media are always ready to side with the dark forces of wussification. And wussification, to paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, is political correctness's little sister.

    2007, Kinky Friedman, You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think, →ISBN, page 51

    There is no greater example of the wussification of America than than the growing neglect of our nation's infrastructure.

    2012, Ed Rendell, chapter 22, in A Nation of Wusses: How America's Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great, →ISBN, page 173

Origin

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