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wimplike

wimplike adjective: wimpy.

Adjective

wimplike (comparative more wimplike, superlative most wimplike)

  1. wimpy
    • Everyone from President Bush to Ann Coulter was using it to denote wimplike, Volvo-driving softies too spineless for dangerous times and too given to speaking French.2007 October 4, Roger Cohen, “The New L-Word: Neocon”, in New York Times

Forms of wimplike

comparativemore wimplike
superlativemost wimplike

Origin of wimplike

From wimp + -like.

Questions about wimplike

What does wimplike mean?
Wimplike means wimpy.
What part of speech is wimplike?
Wimplike is an adjective.

Words near wimplike in the dictionary

  1. wimple
  2. wimpled
  3. wimpleless
  4. wimplelike
  5. wimples
  6. wimplike
  7. wimpling
  8. wimplings
  9. wimpoid
  10. wimpoids
  11. wimps

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