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limp-wristed |
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limp-wristed (informal) a man who is limp-wristed seems weak and lacks the qualities that people usually admire in a man. My mother liked him though I suspect my father thought he was a bit limp-wristed. |
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When the Jets' coach met New England coach Bill Belichick at midfield after New York's 17-14 upset, Belichick, who attended the same college (Wesleyan in Connecticut) and who had supervised Mangini in his previous 11 NFL seasons, greeted his former assistant with a no-look, limp-wristed ``handshake. A famous homosexual athlete, they think, belies the public image of the homosexual as a limp-wristed fairy. In this wild decade the mayor was jailed, Versace was shot, and Nathan Lane and Robin Williams limp-wristed it as Ocean Drive drag club owners in The Birdcage. |
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