wussification
English
Etymology
wuss + -ification
Noun
wussification (uncountable)
- (slang) The act or process of wussifying.
- 2005, The American Interest, Volume 1, page 96:
- The wussification of Texas is all about those little things.
- 2006, Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones, →ISBN, page 273:
- The tone, I think, reflects my general sense of growing wussification after deserting my old job at Les Halles.
- 2007, Kinky Friedman, You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think, →ISBN, page 51:
- That's because the media are always ready to side with the dark forces of wussification. And wussification, to paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, is political correctness's little sister.
- 2012, Ed Rendell, chapter 22, in A Nation of Wusses: How America's Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great, →ISBN, page 173:
- There is no greater example of the wussification of America than than the growing neglect of our nation's infrastructure.
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