What's the difference between doormat and weakling?
Doormat
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Weakling
Definition:
(n.) A weak or feeble creature.
(a.) Weak; feeble.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have to admit that I, too, had always thought of Smith, culture secretary in the first Blair government and largely remembered for being a bit too gushing about Cool Britannia, as a seven-stone political weakling.
(2) He never confessed and came over as a bewildered weakling rather than a psychopath.
(3) Guardian reporters are characterised as "weaklings with a crush" rather than "men of action and principle", and on one occasion are described as "lily-livered gits in glass offices".
(4) "Let someone come and kill me, I am not a weakling."
(5) The major defect of that arthritic art was "illustrationism" - weak work by weaklings for weaklings.
(6) "Those on the Tory side who think of him as a political seven-stone weakling are sorely mistaken.
(7) The other half, the party bigwigs roll up their sleeves and bruise in, weaklings following Ukip thugs.
(8) Institutional medical care of newborn infants including premature 'weaklings', had its roots in Europe about 100 years ago.
(9) A nother day, another opportunity to whack the bonds of the weaklings of the eurozone.
(10) Basically, I’m an easily led mental weakling who’s a slave to the series link button.
(11) Like geological strata, they reveal the imprint of a prime minister translated by Falklands victory from beleaguered weakling to political colossus, a chancellor seizing bleak economic projections to promote a welfare reform agenda that he had mapped out as a young man 20 years before, and the fossilised remains of the first campaign in the long war to reverse Labour's 1945 vision of welfare that now, 30 years later, is on the brink of fulfilment.
(12) But, in its implication that David Cameron's Tories were a bunch of weaklings, it was also unfair.
(13) Christie called the president a “feckless weakling”, Bush named Trump a “chaos candidate”, Carson demanded we “get rid of all this PC stuff”, and Cruz claimed “political correctness is killing people”.