Modifies a noun

• coward: And what have the spineless cowards at the FA done?

• politician: Tony Blair, that bogus spineless politician who runs our country.

• performance: January 12 A spineless performance The government's vision for the NHS was shamed by the inconvenient failure of its new IT system.

• capitulation: Or is it just the worst kind of spineless, liberal capitulation to secular sensibilities?

• government: We will no longer allow spineless British governments or their security puppets to play politics with our lives.

• bunch: It's never Blair or Brown or Prescott or any others of that spineless bunch.

Modifying Another Word

• too: I think Hague is too spineless to come up with any views of his own.

• so: Or we slip and fall yet again to our desires of one sort or another and feel angry with ourselves for being so spineless.

• rather: It's not a thoroughly unlikeable film, but the female characters are thin and the gentlemen rather spineless.

• not: We want to make strong, helpful women of them - not spineless jellyfish!