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fee buhl

  • s  pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
    a feeble excuse
  • s  lacking strength or vigor
    feeble efforts
    a feeble voice
  • s  lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
    a feeble old woman
  • s  lacking strength

  • Buck, 21, feeble-minded state asylum inmate, with a feeble-minded mother and a feeble-minded illegitimate child, protested sterilization proceedings against her.
  • And now we have this ill wind, this feeble gust of an environmental horror story.
  • Delhi's feeble response to the Orissa cyclone disaster highlights a national apathy that worries many citizens India: Crash Landing Even a Calcutta court verdict can't answer vexing .
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  • Stephen Hawking in Sydney Morning Herald
    The world will not come to an end,Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, told the Telegraph in London. "The Large Hadron Collider is feeble compared with what goes on in the universe."
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger in International Herald Tribune
    In the written statement, Schwarzenegger said he would not rule out "the potential release of the old, feeble and sick who pose no threat to the public. ...... However, I will not allow the early release of any felons - violent or nonviolent - as a...
  • Antonin Scalia in New York Times
    Applying the Fourth Amendment to new technologies may sometimes be difficult, but when it is necessary to decide a case, we have no choice,Justice Scalia wrote. "The-times-they-are-a-changin' is a feeble excuse for disregard of duty."

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