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Completely lacking courage
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spineless
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. weak in willpower [syn: namby-pamby , wishy-washy ] lacking courage or vitality; "he was a yellow gutless worm"; "a spineless craven fellow" [syn: gutless ] [ant: gutsy ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spineless \Spine"less\, a. Having no spine, or vertebral column. Having no thorns or barbs. lacking in strength of character; cowardly, in a physical or moral sense.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having no spine. 2 cowardly; uncourageous.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1827 of animals (1805 of plants), from spine + -less . Meaning "lacking moral force" is from 1885. Related: Spinelessly ; spinelessness .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ spineless creatures such as jellyfish ▪ Don't be spineless -- you have to stand up to people like that. ▪ He's nothing but a spineless coward. ▪ The President has been accused of being spineless in the face of naked ...
Usage examples of spineless.
The Antler Kindred were weak, spineless creatures, cowardly and frail, and everyone knew it.
Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point, and the pun is very much intended.
They have seduced spineless American and British scholars into giving the benediction of serious study to such thin beer as the films of Capra, Hawks, and Jerry Lewis.
What sort of a miserable, spineless, cowardly, caddish travesty of a man do you take me for, to think I would let you go alone?
The campaigns were monotonously one-sided, from which the Detinans inferred that blonds were and always would be a pack of spineless cowards.
Since organizations appear to be growing larger and more powerful all the time, the future, according to this view, threatens to turn us all into that most contemptible of creatures, spineless and faceless, the organization man.
When they went back to their friends, the committee members would have Ezr Vinh to point at as the spineless fellow who was ramrodding the Emergent demands—and their own unpopular position would be a little easier.