as in afraid
having or showing a shameful lack of courage
you'll come with us into the cave, unless you're yellow
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Recent Examples of yellow
Varieties include the early-blooming Solar Glow™, which produces red-orange blooms, and Solar Flare™ with yellow flowers accented in orange hues.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
His new home was a three-story building with yellow and green balconies that overlooked the city.
—Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
Small amounts of lower-energy red, orange, and yellow light get made, along with even smaller amounts of high-energy blue light.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
The cocktail includes Pantalones Organic Blanco Tequila, Aperol, yellow chartreuse and fresh lime juice garnished with a lime wedge.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
His new home was a three-story building with yellow and green balconies that overlooked the city.
—Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
Small amounts of lower-energy red, orange, and yellow light get made, along with even smaller amounts of high-energy blue light.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
The cocktail includes Pantalones Organic Blanco Tequila, Aperol, yellow chartreuse and fresh lime juice garnished with a lime wedge.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yellow
Adjective
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Heat coaches and players aren’t afraid to admit it.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
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Some in Silicon Valley, even those developing advanced AI, are genuinely afraid of where the technology might lead.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Continue reading … 'DISGUSTING' – Jen Psaki jokes Usha Vance scared of her husband, ripped for 'disgusting' comments.—
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FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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The opening sequence — involving a scared little boy whose fear only accelerates during a nightmarish car ride — is a decent bellwether for the first five episodes (which is all that were screened for critics, of the eight total).—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Her parents were opposed to the Russian occupation but too frightened to talk about it.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2025
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That included an incident in a press box at Yankee Stadium in 2013, when a frightened and fractured Kay had to be brought back to a team hotel, or an incident at the offices at Angel Stadium on Easter Day in 2019 when a sweating and erratic Kay was taken home and then hospitalized.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This careful tiptoeing is probably because the scissor artwork was never meant to be sold at a wider scale.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
24 Oct. 2025
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Some also have lost lawyers, dismayed by the pusillanimous behavior of their leaders.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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The second believed the United States could attain comprehensive security through military-technological means and saw diplomacy as a quixotic or pusillanimous enterprise that dishonored and weakened the country.—
A. Wess Mitchell,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Because Republicans in Congress are spineless.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Many Democrats, including progressives, said the move was spineless on Schumer’s part.—
Julia Manchester,
The Hill,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Shmi, who died for nothing, the cowardly Jedi refusing to free her, refusing to interfere.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
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My cowardly stread ended today, however.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Missourians have the opportunity to put this craven power grab up for a vote.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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There are lots of good rebuttals to this craven move.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Yellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yellow. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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