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Poor-spirited   /pˈurspˈɪrɪtɪd/   Listen
Poor-spirited

adjective
1.
Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful.  Synonyms: pusillanimous, unmanly.





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"Poor-spirited" Quotes from Famous Books



... company in another. The missing of an opera the first night would be more afflicting to her than the death of a child. She pities all the valuable part of her own sex, and calls every woman of a prudent, modest, retired life, a poor-spirited, unpolished creature. What a mortification would it be to Fulvia, if she knew that her setting herself to view is but exposing herself, and that she ...
— Essays and Tales • Joseph Addison
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... succeeded in holding their ground and repulsing them. The sound of the guns at Teroi encouraged the Egyptians and revealed the direction of their friends. With the daylight the Dervishes, who seem throughout the affair to have been poor-spirited fellows, drew off, and the detachment, remounting, made haste to rejoin the ...
— The River War • Winston S. Churchill
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... certain decision of character that betrayed itself in every outline of his masculine, intelligent countenance—"ay, lads, I'm here; an' sorry am I that I've jist comed in time to hear that you're sich poor-spirited rascals as to hang back ...
— Ungava • R.M. Ballantyne
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