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EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Defraud not the poor of his living: and be not fainthearted when thou sittest in judgment.
Sometimes the very opposite is in place; and so Paul writes, "Encourage the fainthearted."
It gave to the brave the most daring heroism, and inspired the fainthearted with the courage of despair.
THE MARTYR OF THE CATACOMBSANONYMOUS
The word rendered "fainthearted" is only used in this single passage; yet every one knows what it means.
But exactly what God was teaching and training him to be, was not to be fainthearted—not to be terrified.
SERMONS ON NATIONAL SUBJECTSCHARLES KINGSLEY
They had volunteered for the team and successfully passed the tests to weed out the temperamentally unfit or fainthearted.
THE DEFIANT AGENTSANDRE ALICE NORTON
Only the fainthearted talk of retreating; the others do not think of it, and these are more than the majority.
THE LONE RANCHECAPTAIN MAYNE REID
The fainthearted mistrust themselves and others; and they discourage themselves and others.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE PASTORAL EPISTLESALFRED PLUMMER
I shall advise General Washington to appoint you to take charge of our fainthearted ones.
PEGGY OWEN PATRIOTLUCY FOSTER MADISON
If we are so fainthearted now what should we have been before the Reformation?
ROME, TURKEY, AND JERUSALEMEDWARD HOARE
WORDS RELATED TO FAINTHEARTED
- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- caitiff
- chicken-hearted
- cowering
- cowhearted
- craven
- dastardly
- diffident
- dismayed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- gutless
- having the willies
- jittery
- lacking courage
- lily-livered
- nervous
- no guts
- panicky
- paper tiger
- pigeonhearted
- pusillanimous
- recreant
- retiring
- running scared
- scared
- shrinking
- shy
- soft
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- weak
- weak-kneed
- worthless
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
- aflutter
- afraid
- aghast
- agitated
- anxious
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- hesitant
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervous
- nervy
- panicky
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- rabbity
- running scared
- scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- solicitous
- spineless
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- tremulous
- uneasy
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
- Milquetoast
- afraid
- ambivalent
- apprehensive
- badgered
- bashful
- browbeaten
- bullied
- capricious
- cowardly
- cowed
- cowering
- coy
- daunted
- demure
- diffident
- fainthearted
- fearful
- feeble
- frightened
- gentle
- having cold feet
- humble
- intimidated
- irresolute
- modest
- mousy
- nervous
- pusillanimous
- retiring
- shaky
- shrinking
- soft
- spineless
- spiritless
- submissive
- timorous
- trembling
- unassertive
- unassured
- unnerved
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- yellow
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