Usage of "spineless" | TermGallery

португальский

Lacking a backbone or spinal column.

Weak in willpower, courage or vitality.

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Examples for "gutless"

I don't care to hear him called a 'gutless wonder'... by anyone. 
 Flag in Exile 

And as usual, he's half right, half wrong, and all gutless. 
 Summer knight 

A gutless editorial. Mr Trump called for the author to turn themselves in. 
 News.com.au 

But you don't believe him; you're just scared gutless of him. 
 The stand 

You didn't make all this in your twenties by being bird-brained or gutless. 
 Talk of the town 

Piety is not a namby-pamby sentiment; it is a great intellectual force. 
 The Warriors 

This wasn't some namby-pamby peacenikery; it was a critical part of winning. 
 A journey: my political life 

Tombs in his sing-song namby-pamby University voice was concerned to get information. 
 Mr. Standfast 

By the bye, what a little namby-pamby thing that Mabel Ainsley is. 
 Isabel Leicester / A Romance by Maude Alma 

Some of them say I will have a weak, namby-pamby Sunday-school sheet. 
 In His Steps 

I'll make him think I'm a wishy-washy moonstruck girl, smitten with him. 
 The Desert of Wheat 

Its views are Liberal-Conservative, and wishy-washy; its principal concern to remain in office. 
 Town Life in Australia 

NYPIRG was a Naderite group, and seen as kind of wishy-washy and bourgeois. 
 The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama 

He's a political rightwinger who makes Boris Johnson look like a wishy-washy liberal. 
 The Guardian 

This is not the time for wishy-washy tones or glaring kitsch. 
 The Guardian 

Lacking thorns.

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Lacking spiny processes.

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Preventing that was indeed more important than love, especially Oscar's spineless variety. 
 Imajica: Complete Edition 

Even Alicia's young son, Wade, seemed to take after Maureen's spineless family. 
 Running scared 

So far you've proven to be as incompetent as you are spineless. 
 Darkness unleashed 

We could not go on with sentimental novels and spineless lyrics forever. 
 Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] 

For faith is not a tame and spineless thing that dares nothing. 
 Sermons on Biblical Characters 

The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and with no understanding. 
 Metamorphosis 

I'm a spineless jellyfish, a weathercock that whirls to every emotional breeze. 
 Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest 

We'll have to give it to this spineless Ivy League bastard instead. 
 Earth Unaware 

Be frank, please; have you not been fighting only spineless, opium-fed animals?' 
 Autobiography of a Yogi 

I thought you were a man; you're only a spineless dog, Harrigan! 
 Harrigan 

And what I wanted today was to get stupid, spineless Stuart Baggett. 
 Three to get deadly and four to score 

I couldn't lie there like some spineless coward and let Joker die. 
 Calamity jayne 

So I'm going to jail because you're just a spineless damn coward. 
 Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor 

The spineless mouse has been gone since early this morning -hours ago. 
 The Sword of Shannara 

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... 

I couldn't believe how spineless I was all of a sudden. 
 Sahm I am 

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