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- noun Plural form of
weakling .
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Whether it was made for $15,000 or $15 million is irrelevant, Paranormal Activity is a great little film sure to separate the horror weaklings from the seasoned terror veterans.
[REVIEW] Paranormal Activity « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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This is a practical, merciful, and inevitable solution of the whole problem, and can be applied to an ever widening circle of social discards, beginning always with the criminal, the diseased, and the insane, and extending gradually to types which may be called weaklings rather than defectives, and perhaps ultimately to worthless race types.
Retro-Progressives 2007
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This is a practical, merciful, and inevitable solution of the whole problem, and can be applied to an ever widening circle of social discards, beginning always with the criminal, the diseased, and the insane, and extending gradually to types which may be called weaklings rather than defectives, and perhaps ultimately to worthless race types.
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It is just a mighty thing dealing death to weaklings, that is all.
Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914
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But I will say, that while the weaklings are the more hopeless, it is the talented that are the most dangerous.
London's Underworld Thomas Holmes 1882
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The financial firepower brought to bear on the weaklings is the equivalent of deploying a 120-mm cannon to gun down rabbits.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ERIC REGULY 2010
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The financial firepower brought to bear on the weaklings is the equivalent of deploying a 120-mm cannon to gun down rabbits.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ERIC REGULY 2010
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There was more than a little racist thinking behind all of this; writings about animal breeding from the late 1800s and early 1900s are full of exhortations to eliminate "weaklings" and to invigorate the race by maintaining the "purity" of its "blood lines."
The Truth About Dogs 1999
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There was more than a little racist thinking behind all of this; writings about animal breeding from the late 1800s and early 1900s are full of exhortations to eliminate "weaklings" and to invigorate the race by maintaining the "purity" of its "blood lines."
The Truth About Dogs 1999
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They have no mercy for "weaklings" or evaders of the truth, and in brutal frankness they will even denounce their own children should they find them falling into evil ways.
Palmistry for All Cheiro
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