Tom is a spineless coward.
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Spineless
Synonyms for "spineless" (171 found)
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Closest matches (35)
Strong matches (51)
Related words (85)
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Noun(1 words)
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More general
2 entriesanatomical featurecharacter trait
More specific
6 entriesCollocations
6 entriesspineless animalspineless behaviorspineless leadershipspineless organismspineless policyspineless stance
Inflections
2 entriesmore spinelessmost spineless
Derivations
2 entriesAntonyms
1 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 12 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- бесхрыбе́тны adj (having no spine)
Bulgarian
1 entries- безгръбна́чен adj (having no spine)
Czech
1 entries- bezpáteřný adj (having no spine)
Estonian
1 entries- selgrootu adj (having no spine)
Finnish
1 entries- selkärangaton adj (having no spine)
German
2 entries- rückgratlos adj (having no spine)
- stachellos adj (having no spine)
Macedonian
1 entries- безрбетен adj (having no spine)
Māori
1 entries- iwituararokore adj (having no spine)
Polish
1 entries- bezkręgowy adj (having no spine)
Russian
2 entries- беспозвоно́чный adj (having no spine)
- бесхребе́тный adj (having no spine)
Swedish
1 entries- ryggradslös adj (having no spine)
Ukrainian
1 entries- безхребе́тний adj (having no spine)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Tom is a gutless, spineless, gormless, underachieving twat.
Source: tatoeba (10194048)
If this results in a society which MacIntyre has criticized as being the province of the manager, the aesthete and the analyst, types almost sinister in their philosophical lightmindedness, superficiality, programmed uninterestingness, and their depressingly spineless willingness to grant the presence of 'despicable types' for the sake of political freedom, then so be it.
Source: wiktionary
Killership requires a person to become brave and polite. It is not deal of weakwilled and spineless people. This deal likes neither cheating nor foolishness.
Source: wiktionary