Sentence examples for Be feeble from inspiring English sources
adjective
Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
- Though she appeared old and feeble, she could still throw a ball.
Shareholders and corporate governance have proved to be feeble means for reining in corporate pay.
Many central bankers worried that the recovery would be feeble and fragile.
Why does any self-respecting painter ever set out to be feeble?
Political activism may be feeble in Japan, but pacifism here still runs deep.
Raw fear has given way to anxiety that the recovery will be feeble and drab.
Far from wrecking the EU economy, carbon constraints may be feeble in the early years of the scheme.
"New York is real cool," Mr. Lafferty said, explaining that in his home port of Norfolk, Va., civilians consider sailors to be feeble-minded, perverts and alcoholics.
"The debtor, the creditor and the person to whom collection is referred, should be adult and sane, and no one should have coerced them, and they should not be feeble-minded, that is, those who squander their wealth.
Churchill's ambitions for compulsory sterilisation ultimately failed but with the increased influence of the Eugenics Society, in 1913 the Mental Deficiency Act established powers to incarcerate those believed to be "feeble-minded" in purpose-built asylums, where men and women were segregated, ensuring their inability to reproduce without the need for controversial medical interventions.
John Carey, who hails Will in the World as "probably the best one-volume life of Shakespeare yet", suggests with a chuckle that it "would seem, to any self-respecting 1980s new historicist, so old-fashioned as to be feeble-minded".
A U-shaped one would be feebler and flatter.
