Spineless definition

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Lacking courage or willpower.
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Having no backbone; invertebrate.
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Having a weak or flexible backbone.
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Lacking courage, resistance, willpower, etc.
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Having no spines.
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Lacking a spinal column; invertebrate.
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Without spines, or thorny processes.
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Having no spine.
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Origin of spineless

  • spine +"Ž -less

    From Wiktionary

Spineless Sentence Examples

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

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

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

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

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

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