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wimpishly

wimpishly adverb: in a wimpish manner.

Adverb

wimpishly (comparative more wimpishly, superlative most wimpishly)

  1. In a wimpish manner.
    • Religion has become either wimpishly workaday, or terminally crazy, or merely businesslike—confusing spirituality with charitable donations.1989, Julian Barnes, chapter 8, in A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, New York: Vintage, published 1990, page 242
    • Tanya de Grunwald, who runs the Graduate Fog website which campaigns for interns’ rights, said: “Many managers continue to hide wimpishly behind the defence that they are offering these opportunities out of the goodness of their hearts, in order to give young people the chance to gain some...2011 April 28, Shiv Malik, “Almost one in five British businesses admit using interns as cheap labour”, in The Guardian

Forms of wimpishly

comparativemore wimpishly
superlativemost wimpishly

Origin of wimpishly

From wimpish + -ly.

Questions about wimpishly

What does wimpishly mean?
Wimpishly means in a wimpish manner.
What part of speech is wimpishly?
Wimpishly is an adverb.

Words near wimpishly in the dictionary

  1. wimpily
  2. wimpiness
  3. wimping
  4. wimping out
  5. wimpish
  6. wimpishly
  7. wimpishness
  8. wimple
  9. wimpled
  10. wimpleless
  11. wimplelike

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