limp-wristed

Definitions

Examples

• He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).

• Clean-shaven and balding, Saleem is in his forties and walks with a limp.

• To compound it, Rice then treats her limp form with what appears to be cold contempt.

• The charts now featured the likes of Limp Bizkit, a rap-metal band whose misogyny was so overt as to be comical.

• One leg of his green pajamas hung limp, empty below the knee.

• His head fell back limp on MacRae's arm, and the rest of the message went with the game old Dutchman across the big divide.

• She had been walking alone with her arms hanging limp, letting her white skirts trail along the dewy path.

• Very hot; very limp with the prevalent disease but greatly cheered up by the news of yesterday evening's battle at Helles.

• Before we were entirely out of the crush of the city, the engine began to limp and shortly came to a stop.

• The rider seemed as weak as the horse, for he swayed in the saddle as he rode, and the bridle reins hung limp in his hands.