POOR-SPIRITED Synonyms: 101 Similar and Opposite Words

poor-spirited

adjective

Definition of poor-spirited

as in yellow

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Adjective

The 50 walleyes also have yellow tags with contact information, just in case they are caught by a lucky angler.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2026
Scheffler had not seen conditions like this — a combination of yellow and brown, which translates to firm and fiery in a links vocabulary.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026

Definition of yellow

Adjective

Some also have lost lawyers, dismayed by the pusillanimous behavior of their leaders.

— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
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

Definition of pusillanimous

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The Chiefs turned that spiritless first half into a 28-7 blowout Monday night against the Commanders, opening the second half with touchdown drives of 80, 75 and 94 yards.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 28 Oct. 2025
From spiritless spirits to refusing to open up a bar tab, members of Generation Z are continuing to challenge alcohol traditions.

— Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025

Definition of spiritless

Adjective

Yes, Arsenal fan Neel from New Delhi held his nerve on the final day to shake off the persistent and heroic challenge of six-year-old Wilfred — and the meandering, distinctly unheroic challenge of a 51-year-old journalist.

— Oliver Kay, New York Times, 26 May 2026
That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.

— Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024

Definition of unheroic

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Trump’s revenge tour also took down five Indiana state senators who had voted against the midterm gerrymandering to which Florida’s gutless Republicans have agreed.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2026
Keane called out the Red Wings as gutless for waiting for a home game to exact revenge.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 28 May 2026

Definition of gutless

Adjective

All that was left was a single high heel, no doubt dislodged after the host put up an epic struggle against her dastardly kidnapper.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026
Saving people from dastardly supervillains and disastrous earthquakes, those are jobs for Superman.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Definition of dastardly

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