sick man
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A weak member of a peer group, especially the weakest.
Example Sentences
- "The former openly likens Cuba to Turkey, saying that the island is the "sick man" of the West;"
- "The House of Lords has now come to be pretty generally looked upon as the "Sick Man" of the English Constitution."
- "He told how in an economic sense we were one of the Sick Men of the World our industry dilapidated rundown and was not being renewed"
- "For Asia as a whole, that target was just about achieved, even when including India and Indonesia, often regarded as the "sick men" of the continent."