spinelessness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spinelessness
Noun
  • Though the Red Sox did shoot themselves in the foot with base-running, fielding and bunting failures in Game 2, thus costing them their shot at reaching the ALDS, Game 3 was a bit more representative of the Red Sox and their weaknesses.
    Michael Hurley, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • However, other small business indicators show weakness.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The result is that Hamas has reaped the political windfall of its own callous cowardice.
    Aviva Klompas, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Monster doesn’t have answers for these questions, just a general disdain for Americans and broad observations about our own cowardice.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Given the President’s long-standing support for corporate tax cuts and deregulation of industry, this pusillanimity is perhaps not so surprising.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boasts and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon, and Texas, are yet unsung.
    Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
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“Spinelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spinelessness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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