What's the difference between chickenshit and wuss?

Chickenshit


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are all these businessmen with loads of money too chickenshit to do this.” What was amazing about Pussy Riot, she says, “is that it opened up this philosophical debate.
  • (2) US relations with Israel have plunged to new depths of bitterness and hostility as senior officials in the Obama administration decried Binyamin Netanyahu as a “chickenshit prime minister”, “coward” and a man more interested in his own political survival than peace.
  • (3) A s the crisis in relations between the United States and Israel plunges to new depths, senior Obama administration officials last week allegedly described Israeli leader Binyamin Netanyahu as a “chickenshit prime minister” and a “coward” .
  • (4) Love did his bit to add to the ongoing weirdness by accepting the band's induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with a rambling speech in which he variously attacked Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and called Mick Jagger a "chickenshit".
  • (5) If anything, the ubiquity of other kids going through the same thing led many of my friends and I to the same conclusions: that somehow we were more chickenshit than our other friends, that locking yourself in the bedroom and pleading with one parent not to send you over to another parent’s home for their custodial visitation manifested some particularly unmanly cravenness.
  • (6) The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” said one official quoted in the Atlantic.

Wuss


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) WE’RE MEANT TO BE ON WUSS ISLAND,” I yell, stumbling and covering my head and waving my arms at the same time to ward it off.
  • (2) And we wanted to make this clear, that we had tried to talk to Kembrah Pfahler, the woman behind the band in question, in case you assumed we were a bunch of wusses who couldn't quite stomach engaging in conversation with this force of nature, this fearsome creature of the night.
  • (3) Any man who looks after his children is seen as a wuss – and not career compatible.
  • (4) From this moment on MQ and I point to the walking birds and the impotent spiders we spot on our hikes and yell “WUSS ISLAND!” as we pass.
  • (5) Cameron: "Let them eat stag's liver" … Osborne: More than you did, you big, fat wuss.
  • (6) Sorry: not sorry The president says sorry surprisingly often, but uses it only in the passive-aggressive sense of “I’m not sorry at all, but I’m saying sorry in order to imply that you’re such a wuss that the facts hurt your feelings, you idiot.” Thus: “Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.” (Not sorry.)
  • (7) Even some plants on the island that have thorns on the mainland do not have thorns on Wuss Island because there is nothing here to attack them.
  • (8) But despite being a wuss on many levels, there is one thing I’m not scared of: spiders.
  • (9) Now, every Trump voter sees two congenital wusses who can only win by teaming up, two loser would-be antagonists so weak that even their insults need a partnership.
  • (10) After the Wuss Island revelations we dine on medium rare steak (perfect) and kingfish with pigfish as the entree.
  • (11) "Charles Tavistock is a wuss," opines Jeanette Phillips.
  • (12) Before dinner we sit in on a presentation by the naturalist Ian Hutton, which leads to MQ and I rechristening Lord Howe as Wuss Island.