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Meanings of spineless in English

Portuguese
invertebrado

Lacking a backbone or spinal column.

invertebrado

Weak in willpower, courage or vitality.

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Examples for "invertebrate"
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Balanced invertebrate ecosystems are also a strong natural source of pest control.
News.com.au
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The fear of man is no instinctive feeling in the invertebrate creation.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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But jellyfish-thosegelatinous, pulsating, invertebrate aquatic creatures-drewher back to the sea.
Wired
4
But the stranger, though alive, was evidently in a molluscous, invertebrate condition.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 / A Maga...
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These lipid compositions are compared with those in other invertebrate nervous systems.
Pubmed

Lacking thorns.

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Lacking spiny processes.

Usage of spineless in English
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Preventing that was indeed more important than love, especially Oscar's spineless variety.
Imajica: Complete Edition
2
Even Alicia's young son, Wade, seemed to take after Maureen's spineless family.
Running scared
3
So far you've proven to be as incompetent as you are spineless.
Darkness unleashed
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We could not go on with sentimental novels and spineless lyrics forever.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
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For faith is not a tame and spineless thing that dares nothing.
Sermons on Biblical Characters
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The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and with no understanding.
Metamorphosis
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I'm a spineless jellyfish, a weathercock that whirls to every emotional breeze.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
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We'll have to give it to this spineless Ivy League bastard instead.
Earth Unaware
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Be frank, please; have you not been fighting only spineless, opium-fed animals?'
Autobiography of a Yogi
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I thought you were a man; you're only a spineless dog, Harrigan!
Harrigan
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And what I wanted today was to get stupid, spineless Stuart Baggett.
Three to get deadly and four to score
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I couldn't lie there like some spineless coward and let Joker die.
Calamity jayne
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So I'm going to jail because you're just a spineless damn coward.
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
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The spineless mouse has been gone since early this morning -hours ago.
The Sword of Shannara
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Since the Civil War we have grown rich and fat, flaccid and spineless.
Keeping Fit All the Way / How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Str...
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I couldn't believe how spineless I was all of a sudden.
Sahm I am
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invertebrado
Spineless through the time
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