What's the difference between weakling and wuss?

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”.

Wuss


Definition:

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.

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