spineless
They will be outraged at his spinelessness for backing down to his boss.
I have often reproached my fellow citizens for their spinelessness, self-indulgence, and greed.
He berated the government for its spinelessness in failing to tackle the issue.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Cowardly
be afraid of your own shadowidiom
bottle
bottle out
chicken
chicken out
cravenness
fainthearted
gutless
lily-livered
pantywaist
spinelessly
timid
timidity
timidly
timorous
unheroic
weak-kneed
wimp
wimp out
wimpy
Examples of spinelessness
spinelessness
The governments which, through
spinelessness or ideology, support you are also responsible.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I said that they showed their
spinelessness by putting up with such things.
From the
Hansard archive
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