The word "wimp" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used as a noun to refer to a person who is weak or without courage. Example sentence: He was called a wimp for not standing up for himself.
No one dares question them for fear of being thought a dove or a wimp.
He is no wimp ("Always attack, never defend" runs a slogan on the wall of his chaotic campaign office); and he boasts of holding 432 town hall meetings up and down Wisconsin over the past six years.
The "wimp, wasp, weenie" and "every woman's first husband" trounced "the architect of the Massachusetts miracle" by eight points.In this section On the trail The timing of the shrub A change of mind in Austin Remembering Dukakis Ralph Nader's green bananas Buy! Cowed ReprintsThe vice-president can draw three big lessons from the Dukakis debacle.
The president now finds himself accused of being both a warmonger for entering the war and a wimp for his lame prosecution of it.To make matters worse, he now denies that it is a war at all.
When Mr Romney says that "even" Mr Carter would have ordered the killing of bin Laden, he implies that Mr Carter was a wimp.
But Arnie had put his finger on a debate at the heart of this election: who are the real men and who are the girlie men?The Republicans are determined to paint Mr Kerry as a Frenchified wimp in macho garb (the Botoxed Brahmin even opposes the death penalty, for Pierre's sake).
Back in the early 1970s, Xerox pioneered most of the wimp features with its legendary Alto personal computer for researchers, and later its Star computer for office use.But Apple brought the dumbed-down pictorial interface to the rest of the world.
Even former supporters call him, variously, ham-handed, withdrawn, a wimp and a babu (a bureaucrat promoted beyond his abilities).
WHATEVER the failings of Stephen Byers, the transport secretary, he certainly isn't a wimp.
In America's political lexicon the term "liberal" is a synonym for "wimp"; sooner or later, that famous picture of Mr Dukakis looking foolish in a tank is mentioned.
He rides Harley Davidsons and has a passion for red meat.Indeed, Mr Kerry stands a chance not just of deflecting the wimp charge but of hurling it back at his detractors.
