weak-kneed in English

adjective
1
weak and shaky as a result of fear or excitement.
His eyes met mine and I felt curiously light-headed and weak-kneed . I tore my eyes away with an effort, trying not to think about him.

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1. He's just a weak-kneed coward.

2. She stood dazed and weak-kneed beside the coffin.

3. No one to get weak-kneed at that pretty smile.

4. The Prime Minister sank, weak-kneed, into the nearest chair.

5. The role of the dissenter is not for the weak - kneed.

6. Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill has been weak-kneed and indecisive.

7. Instead of defending traditional values, the church frequently seems weak-kneed and irresolute.

8. Criticisms of solipsism should therefore count as criticisms of the weak-kneed scepticism embodied in foundationalism.

9. He stood there like a weak-kneed schoolboy who'd impulsively confessed to stealing the headmaster's wallet.

10. The other two, a couple of weak-kneed cowards, had thought that was enough and run off.

11. 25 Criticisms of solipsism should therefore count as criticisms of the weak-kneed scepticism embodied in foundationalism.

12. 9 He stood there like a weak-kneed schoolboy who'd impulsively confessed to stealing the headmaster's wallet.

13. And as obvious becomes one's paucity of expression, one's weak-kneed imagination, one's imperfect assimilation of the spirit of the story.

14. “The Bellmen” is the kind of weak-kneed, cheeky comedy David Spade or Rob Schneider might have made a decade or so ago

15. One glance at her, and both Hurstwood and Drouet saw plainly that she also was weak-kneed. She came faintly across the stage, saying.

16. On one side is the European Central Bank, which is spending billions to prop up Europe's weak-kneed bond markets and safeguard the common currency.