spineless
adjEtymology From spine + -less.
1
Having no spines, prickles, or thorns.
2
Having no spinal column.
3
Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character.
- You can laugh / A spineless laugh1997, “Exit Music (For a Film)”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:
- If this results in a society which MacIntyre has criticized as being the province of the manager, the aesthete and the analyst, types almost sinister in their philosophical lightmindedness, superficiality, programmed uninterestingness, and their depressingly spineless willingness to grant the presence of 'despicable types' for the sake of political freedom, then so be it.2006, Robin Holt, Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights, →ISBN:
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- Killership requires a person to become brave and polite. It is not deal of weakwilled and spineless people. This deal likes neither cheating nor foolishness.2012, Vagif Sultanly, Iraj Ismaely, Modern Azerbaijanian Prose:
- Derived terms
- spineless eel, spinelessly, spinelessness, spineless sadism