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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



... are different," argued Flame. "So soft, so plushy, so spineless! Cats were meant to be stuffed ...
— Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... in a comfortable parlor or club-room, but some of the tales which slipped through the censor from spineless cry-babies in our ranks of high and low rank, and were published in the States and then in clippings found their way back to North Russia, lamented the fact of the hardship of war in such insidious manner as to furnish the most formidable foe to morale with which the troops ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore
... loose. "Why, look here!" says I. "You soft boiled, mush headed, spineless imitation of a real man! do you mean to tell me that, just because you've been tied loose from a few skirts for a week or so, and have had to deal with some grouchy hired hands, you've actually gone ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... helots of the land Are cowed beneath thy iron fist; They are too dumb to understand— Too tame and spineless ...
— Bars and Shadows • Ralph Chaplin


Words linked to "Spineless" :   wishy-washy, unarmed, gutless, thornless, weak, zoological science, namby-pamby, zoology, spinous


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