Clive Sinclair

In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

British Author

Ken Livingstone

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

English Politician

Gurinder Chadha

I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents.

English Director

Liz Kendall

I hate weedy thin delicate women's watches, gets on my nerves, I like big men's watches.

British Politician

Weedy implies more than being thin; it suggests a lack of strength or robustness.

Physical Weakness

Using 'weedy' to describe a person can sound insulting or belittling.

Negative Connotation

Weedy is used for individuals, not groups. Instead, say 'a group of frail people'.

Not for Groups

'Weedy' can describe areas left wild for biodiversity, not just neglect.

Not Always Bad

Describing a place as 'weedy' is casual and might sound too informal in some writings.

Casual Use

Weedy doesn't just mean there are weeds; it conveys an overrun or untamed look.

Emphasizes Overgrowth

 Australians have about a third less heart disease than we do -- less deaths from heart attacks, heart failure, less strokes -- they're generally a healthier bunch. And of course they said this was because of their fine moral standing, their exercise, because they're Australians and we're weedy pommies, and so on.

Richard Weller: Could...

 that completely depends so deep water cold corals are very slow growing where um staghorn coral so like these branching ones or the genus acropora are known as sort of the weedier species and they grow quickly and they're known to be some of the

Coral Reef Ocean...

 this is a very rare sighting like their cousins the seahorse's weedy sea dragons are under threat think it's time to let her go on her way what I get

The Weedy Sea Dragon PIPE...

 a weedy now when you are talking with a Valda we all feel like you want to take all other this read a house so that we can go to school