It is incontrovertible that the children grow up into rotten adults, without virility or stamina, a weak-kneed, narrow-chested, listless breed, that crumples up and goes down in the brute struggle for life.
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Weak-kneed
Synonyms for "weak-kneed" (46 found)
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10 translations across 4 languages.
Bikol Central
1 entries- lupog adj (literally: having weak knees)
Bulgarian
1 entries- малодушен adj (figuratively: having weak knees)
Galician
4 entries- apoucada adj (figuratively: having weak knees)
- apoucado adj (figuratively: having weak knees)
- coitada adj (figuratively: having weak knees)
- coitado adj (figuratively: having weak knees)
Māori
2 entries- turingongengonge adj (literally: having weak knees)
- turipū adj (literally: having weak knees)
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What these teenagers are weighing is at the very heart of Gandhian philosophy: "His absolute insistence on nonviolence, which young men see as pussyfooted and weak-kneed and — dare I say — feminine and hence not macho enough," says Guha, the biographer.
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