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Spineless   /spˈaɪnləs/   Listen
adjective
Spineless  adj.  
1.
Having no spine, or vertebral column.
2.
Having no thorns or barbs.
3.
Lacking in strength of character; cowardly, in a physical or moral sense.





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"Spineless" Quotes from Famous Books



... use?" he said aloud. "You're nothing but a spineless putterer. Haven't you enough sense even to give me a chance to decide for myself? Why didn't you keep the woman with you till you could send ...
— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine
... to-morrow he would be glad of it. To-night, after that interminable journey, his head ached atrociously. He felt limp as a wet dish-clout; his nerves all out of gear ... Perhaps those confounded doctors were not such fools as they seemed. He cursed himself for a spineless ineffectual—messing about with nerves when he had been lucky enough to come through four years of war with his full complement of limbs and faculties unimpaired. Two slight wounds, a passing collapse, from utter fatigue and misery, soon after his ...
— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver
... an unnecessary observation to some, but many students never seem to be able to strike the happy medium between marching over the keys like a regiment of wooden soldiers, or crawling over them like a lot of spineless caterpillars. ...
— Great Pianists on Piano Playing • James Francis Cooke
... Carthoris. "We are not dead yet. Let us hasten to the avenues and make an attempt to leave the city. We are still alive, and while we live we may yet endeavour to direct our own destinies. Of what avail, to sink spineless to the floor? Come, be ...
— Thuvia, Maid of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... mooned about the links by himself, playing a shocking game, and generally comported himself like a man who has looked for the escape of gas with a lighted candle. In affairs of love the strongest men generally behave with the most spineless lack of resolution. Wilton weighed thirteen stone, and his muscles were like steel cables; but he could not have shown less pluck in this crisis in his life if he had been a poached egg. It was pitiful to ...
— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse


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