0 not brave or determined enough to defend your beliefs against others:
Instead of defending traditional values, the church frequently seems weak-kneed and irresolute.
That would have been as intelligible as this miserable, weak-kneed amendment.
It is a weak-kneed little creature which can be trampled over by airlines and totally disregarded by foreign carriers.
I recognise that that position is only held by means of support, and that support has been a little weak-kneed and wobbly.
To whom are we supposed to be weak-kneed?
I hope that we shall not be as weak-kneed again in the future, and will take our responsibilities seriously.
It is a weak-kneed attempt to make the best of two opposing principles.
I was going to call them timorous and weak-kneed.
The hypothesis is that the trustees are pusillanimous, weak-kneed, incompetent and mean spirited because they do not really have the public interest at heart.