spineless
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When Callum McGregor eviscerated his own team-mates in the wake of Celtic's stupefying Champions League collapse against LASK, he delivered their one coherent moment of a spineless night.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Maybe people do it out of desperation,” she told me, “but it’s spineless and demoralizing.”
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2026
As per Margaret Hartmann with New York Magazine's Intelligencer, the gift is "peak spineless groveling."
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025
But they and other invertebrates are the spineless backbones of ecosystems, playing critical roles as pollinators, predators, prey and decomposers.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2024
His rosary beads hung from a corner of the shelf, and in between a pile of sweaters and a stack of spineless books was a framed plastic ID card.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Vocabulary lists containing spineless
"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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