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  • 91feeble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. See weakness. Ant., strong. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking strength] Syn. fragile, puny, strengthless, infirm; see weak 1 , 2 . 2. [Lacking effectiveness] Syn. impotent, ineffectual,… …

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  • 92fine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. penalty, forfeit, amercement. v. t. amerce, mulct, penalize. See punishment. adj. pure, superior, admirable, excellent; small, tiny, slender, flimsy, delicate; worthy, estimable; skilled,… …

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  • 93frail — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fragile, brittle, delicate; weak, infirm, weak willed. See brittleness, weakness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. fragile, delicate, infirm, slight; see dainty 1 , fragile , sick , weak 1 . See Synonym… …

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  • 94poor — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. indigent (see poverty); inferior, faulty, unsatisfactory, imperfect, defective; humble; weak, flimsy. See insufficiency, imperfection, disease.Ant., rich, wealthy. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking …

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  • 95slight — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. slender, slim, frail, delicate; trivial; meager, scant. See unimportance. v. t. ignore, cut, snub, rebuff; scamp, neglect, disdain. n. snub, rebuff, cut. See contempt. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …

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  • 96unsound — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unhealthy, diseased, sickly; deranged, unbalanced, unsettled; invalid, unreliable; untrue, incorrect, faulty, imperfect, illogical; decayed. See disease, error, imperfection. II (Roget s IV) modif.… …

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  • 97unconvincing — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. open to question, open to doubt, unproven, weak, *full of holes, flimsy, suspect. ANT.: convincing, incontrovertible II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Not plausible or believable: flimsy, implausible, improbable …

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  • 98Weakness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Weakness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 weakness weakness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 debility debility atony relaxation languor enervation Sgm: N 1 impotence impotence &c. 158 Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 99sleaze — [20] It is common practice to name fabrics after their place of manufacture, and from the 17th century that applied to cloth made in Silesia (a region in east central Europe, now mainly within Poland), and in particular to a type 461 slime of… …

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  • 100unsubstantial — a. 1. Light, flimsy, gossamery, thin. 2. Unreal, imaginary, chimerical, visionary, ideal, illusory, fantastical. 3. Unsound, untenable, weak, flimsy, fallacious, erroneous, illogical …

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