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She schemes, she cries, she makes decisions Maurizio’s too spineless to make himself.
WHAT CAN YOU EVEN SAY ABOUT HOUSE OF GUCCI? IT’S STUPID. IT’S PERFECT.ALISSA WILKINSONNOVEMBER 22, 2021VOXWith 11 defections on the vote to remove Greene from committees, McCarthy looks all the more spineless and inept.
REPUBLICANS CAN RUN FROM ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT THEY CAN’T HIDEJENNIFER RUBINFEBRUARY 5, 2021WASHINGTON POST"Perdita Hepworth," she abandoned her spineless attitude and sat upright, speaking with vehemence.
THE BEAUTYMRS. WILSON WOODROWIf any of the jury dissented from its false statement they were too spineless to express their opinion.
THE EVERETT MASSACREWALKER C. SMITHHe had once been persuaded, yielding out of spineless bravado, to descend the shaft of a mine in a huge bucket.
BUNKER BEANHARRY LEON WILSONWilled attention, rather than spineless feeling distractibility, might have saved him.
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY FOR NURSESMARY F. PORTERBut of course, since I am as spineless as a mollusk, I sought to accept this heaven-sent visitation with due resignation.
A TOP-FLOOR IDYLGEORGE VAN SCHAICKThat spineless governess'll be writin' back to the Keith woman about everything she sees, eats, sits or sleeps on.
RIMROCK TRAILJ. ALLAN DUNNTruedale came to the conclusion that fatalism was no weak and spineless philosophy, but one for the making of strong souls.
THE MAN THOU GAVESTHARRIET T. COMSTOCKFor this cactus is nearly spineless and clings to the inaccessible cañon slopes where stock cannot prey upon it.
THE FANTASTIC CLANJOHN JAMES THORNBERWORDS RELATED TO SPINELESS
- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- chicken-hearted
- cowering
- cowhearted
- craven
- dastardly
- diffident
- dismayed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- gutless
- having the willies
- jittery
- lacking courage
- lily-livered
- nervous
- no guts
- panicky
- 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
- discomposed
- 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
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