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spineless

/spahyn-lis/US // ˈspaɪn lɪs //UK // (ˈspaɪnlɪs) //

无刺,无刺的,无骨气,没有刺

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having no spines or quills.
    • : having no spine or backbone.
    • : having a weak spine; limp.
    • : without moral force, resolution, or courage; feeble: a spineless, lily-livered coward.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.cowardly

Examples

  • With 11 defections on the vote to remove Greene from committees, McCarthy looks all the more spineless and inept.

  • His spineless duplicity confirms that the good guy is actually pretty much a louse.

  • He then offered the spineless excuse that, “A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.”

  • But no spineless relativism is necessary to recognize that, for most human beings, realness comes in various flavors.

  • Spineless” is a charge Romney critics have leveled at the presidential candidate.

  • Taking it on now is strictly Obama's sop to liberals appalled by his spineless obsession with managing public perceptions.

  • "Perdita Hepworth," she abandoned her spineless attitude and sat upright, speaking with vehemence.

  • If any of the jury dissented from its false statement they were too spineless to express their opinion.

  • He had once been persuaded, yielding out of spineless bravado, to descend the shaft of a mine in a huge bucket.

  • Willed attention, rather than spineless feeling distractibility, might have saved him.

  • But of course, since I am as spineless as a mollusk, I sought to accept this heaven-sent visitation with due resignation.