lightweight

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It has sometimes been read in the context of chick lit -- lightweight, a bit romantic, "Sex and the City" - type novels with pink covers ...

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  1. noun One that weighs relatively little or less than average.
  2. noun A weight division in professional boxing having an upper limit of 135 pounds (60.7 kilograms), between junior lightweight and junior welterweight.
  3. noun A boxer competing in this weight division.

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  • Arthur Sulzberger Jr. "comes off as a lightweight, as someone slightly out of his depth, whose dogged sincerity elicits not admiration so much as pity," writes —  Romenesko
  • There's such a large group of local reporters to choose from that finding a hack or a lightweight isn't very hard, and they're hoping that it's easier to dazzle them with an "exclusive" than the national types. —  Obsidian Wings
  • It has sometimes been read in the context of chick lit -- lightweight, a bit romantic, "Sex and the City" - type novels with pink covers ... —  Salon
  • The media dismissed her as a lightweight (and too conservative). —  United Conservatives of Virginia
  • But she's such a lightweight, they can't risk letting her answer a few questions. —  rubber hose
 

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