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Meanings of poor-spirited in anglès

Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful.

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        1
        Thus stretched in unmanly indolence on their cushions, they feast on delicacies.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
        2
        I call it unmanly to tease and quarrel, and contradict like that.
        What Katy Did at School
        3
        Soft, but with no unmanly softness; luxuriant, but with no unmannered luxury.
        Val d'Arno / Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent ...
        4
        To slavishly follow others is, to say the least of it, unmanly.
        A Trip Abroad / An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan an...
        5
        O, it was impious; it was unmanly; it was poor and pitiful!
        Parker's Second Reader / National Series of Selections for Readi...
        1
        The impulse that drove me from the scene was pusillanimous and cowardly.
        Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
        2
        The tone of the proclamation was so moderate as to seem pusillanimous.
        Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
        3
        They criticized vehemently their rulers' readiness to yield as pusillanimous and injudicious.
        Greece and the Allies, 1914-1922
        4
        Did he reject the patriarchal order-likesome poor pusillanimous cry-babies among us?
        The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West
        5
        But the pusillanimous policy which prompted the embargo survived its repeal.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 / A Magazine...
        Usage of poor-spirited in anglès
        1
        I am sure it is very poor-spirited to be afraid of dragons.
        Empire of Ivory
        2
        It would have been a poor-spirited company if there had been none.
        Adventures of a Despatch Rider
        3
        After all, Jane was too poor-spirited a victim to afford long entertainment.
        The Nether World
        4
        I should be a poor-spirited fool to stay where I'm not wanted.
        The Woman Thou Gavest Me; Being the Story of Mary O'Neill
        5
        I suppose I'm a poor-spirited creature, but that is how I feel.
        Anne of the Island
        6
        There is no saying what advice some of these poor-spirited courtiers may give.
        A March on London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler's Insurrection
        7
        No matter how poor-spirited she seemed, if only she could move his sympathies.
        The Nether World
        8
        Messer Gonzaga may be an idle lute-thrummer, a poor-spirited coward; but a traitor--!
        Love-at-Arms / Being a Narrative Excerpted from the Chronicles o...
        9
        Seems to be a poor-spirited sort of fellow from all accounts!
        A College Girl
        10
        One of those poor-spirited creatures that can be content with the aftermath of love.
        Three Comedies
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        Yes, I am sadly poor-spirited and I have no excuse.
        The Far Horizon
        12
        Are you so tame and so poor-spirited that a threat is to vanquish you?
        Love-at-Arms / Being a Narrative Excerpted from the Chronicles o...
        13
        But the poor in spirit are not the poor-spirited.
        Mornings in the College Chapel / Short Addresses to Young Men on...
        14
        This woman was more mistress of the house than the poor-spirited lady who owned it.
        Barry Lyndon
        15
        I hope I am not so poor-spirited as that.
        Blood of Tyrants
        16
        But I feel myself a poor-spirited fellow for it.
        The Story of Bawn
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