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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gutless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a gutless decision
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dot realized she'd already left to visit the man who was a gutless jink.
▪ That is why the gutless time-servers at the Polytechnic asked me to leave.
▪ You were gutless, but that's par for the course.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
gutless

gutless \gut"less\ adj. lacking courage or vitality; as, he was a yellow gutless worm. Opposite of gutsy.

Syn: spineless.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gutless

"cowardly," 1900, from gut (n.) in the figurative "spirit" sense (see guts) + -less. Literal sense is from c.1600. Related: Gutlessly.

Wiktionary
gutless

a. (context informal English) cowardly; lacking courage or morals.

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WordNet
gutless

adj. lacking courage or vitality; "he was a yellow gutless worm"; "a spineless craven fellow" [syn: spineless] [ant: gutsy]

Usage examples of "gutless".

The Penanggalan actually separates from its whole, female form into a motionless, headless, gutless body and flying head.

You cock-sucking blood-licking-arse-kissing defilers of sacred shrines, you brainless heartless gutless cockless offspring of an imbecile and a deformed cow, you flea-bitten child-robbers who poisoned your fathers and raped your mothers and sold your sisters to the Dutch and carved up your brothers for sale in a butcher's shop, you gutter-hugging traders in second-hand excrement, why didn't you do anything about this?

They'll find themselves sacrificed by the gutless wonders who can't wait to scramble onto Alquezar's wagon and fawn all over Medusa, whining 'It wasn't our fault!

If they don't have the spunk to stand up for themselves they must be a pretty gutless bunch, and I don't think we ought to give away .