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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    spineless


    1. Did I not see the truth of my brother’s condition? Was I so pusillanimous that I would not confront? Was I so spineless that I cherished their feelings over their eternal condition?


    2. But what’s some spineless bastard have to do with it?”


    3. The litany of abuses predicated in the name of free expression, or proxy ―decisions‖ made on behalf of others who are unable to make informed decisions, are understood by the hordes of mentally ill people roaming the streets, who should be otherwise institutionalized for their own safety, if not for the safety of our society, for that matter, who remain on the streets, unable to properly care for themselves, mandated by civil rights organizations fearful that their rights may be jeopardized, people otherwise incapable of making a rational assessment of their own condition; not to mention conferring legitimacy to sexual deviancy in all its varieties that many of us have casually resigned ourselves to as ―simply‖ alternative lifestyles or championing (equal) protection under the law, that, in some instances, should call for censorship, or implausible assumptions regarding the ―unborn,‖ (Abortion) remanding millions of innocents to an early grave, a convenience for women fretting over their figures or professional careers, abetted by spineless politicians, who for expediency sake, continue advancing legislation denying them (―unborn‖) their own inalienable right to choose, had they the means, or encouraging a culture of death (Euthanasia) for the convenience of (the) would-be custodians of the terminally ill or perhaps to (simply) reduce the increasing costs of Healthcare, or the legalization of drugs because that too is a convenient alternative for a number of individuals who have seemingly lost the will to rid our society of rampant drug abuse and therefore justify such (hare-brained) schemes from the vantage point of opportunity savings or reduced social costs, or movements to eliminate God from the public consciousness lest society be reminded of its sins or perhaps because many of us have (conveniently) chosen to become our own gods


    4. He was an honorable and decent person, but he became indecisive and spineless when around his mother


    5. I think he is not spineless


    6. She finally realized—in her late teens—that whether she could depend on a wily Narayan or spineless Sridhar, she could always rely on her own music to help her stand on her feet


    7. ” But it revealed that they were all spineless turds, and that Gnazzo and Robert would not apologize to me for ratting me out to OGC HQ even though they are responsible for inculcating “ethics” in their UTC troops


    8. that they were all spineless turds, and that Gnazzo and Robert


    9. They are either despicable and belligerent, or so spineless and filled with fear of me as to be cringing and unable to treat me as a person


    10. Where did you learn those moves? I thought you State Department guys were a bunch of spineless wimps and gimps---boy, was I ever wrong!”

    11. It was the same spineless policy that had reduced Canada's Armed Forces to a dangerous, possibly disastrous token strength


    12. Mainwaring had wanted to blurt out: Gutless! Spineless! But that would only have brought the wrath of Ottawa


    13. V even began to be rude to me for the first time in our lives; he had always been a spineless coward in the past


    14. He saw potential in you where the rest of us saw a spineless monkey


    15. Most of these were the spineless wimps, which I described earlier


    16. Getting back to the beginning of the chapter, not all reaction paralleled that of the spineless wimps


    17. , but they do in-fact behold a nation of spineless men who


    18. “You must be the spineless coward who would abandon his own wife to the desert” he retorted at the captain


    19. A spineless, shallow male like Hiss didn’t have the courage to confront Hamilton until he knew he could hurt Hamilton back


    20. “You’re pretty spineless,” said Layne

    21. I have been cursed to lead armies of spineless men


    22. Hitler, Bismarck and Wilhelm had the exact same ambition: imperial dynastic rule of Germany over the world as a war nation: crushing other nations under its booted heel as vainglorious conquering heroes; the myth of an obsolete Teutonic warrior culture being not only preserved but acted out by this pompous spineless jackass


    23. realisation that you're a spineless worm with no will-power!)


    24. “Now you listen to me, you spineless woman! It is YOU, yes YOU who can influence how Dan relates to other people, but you are too gutless and lazy to do Jack shit for your own grandchildren


    25. “Fine,” she answered in a spineless, quaking voice


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    Synonyms for "spineless"

    spineless thornless gutless namby-pamby wishy-washy invertebrate pliable limber soft feeble timid nerveless fearful irresolute limp undetermined

    "spineless" definitions

    weak in willpower, courage or vitality


    lacking a backbone or spinal column


    lacking spiny processes


    lacking thorns