feeble : Idioms & Phrases

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feeble-minded

Fee"ble-mind"ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile. "comfort the feeble-minded." 1 Thess. v. 14. -- Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n.
Webster 1913

forcible-feeble

For"ci*ble-fee`ble adjective
Etymology
From Feeble, a character in the Second Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry IV.," to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet "forcible."
Definitions
  1. Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.
    He [Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review.
Webster 1913