uncourageous

Definition of uncourageousnext

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncourageous
Adjective
  • Earlier this week, Savannah marked one month since her mother's disappearance by visiting the shrine of yellow flowers, cards, and messages left outside of Nancy’s home with her sister Annie and her brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Use yellow sticky cards to monitor for pests.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026
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
Adjective
  • Whoomp, whoomp bumped the coward heart.
    James Arthur, The New York Review of Books, 5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.
    Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In the world of The Boys, based on the gleefully scabrous 2000s indie comic-book series of the same name by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, superheroes are real, pop-culture-dominating, and with rare exceptions, entirely unheroic.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024
Adjective
  • The lesser among them, the timorous, the doubtful, and the wavering, stood back, watching, waiting for some greater sign, savoring their doubts.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The great danger of that moment was that a political backlash — abetted by a furious media and timorous politicians — would lead to a restoration of the policy of Roe.
    The Editors, National Review, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • His hope is to create a new incentive for these timid business leaders, by wiping out a quarter billion or more from their combined market cap.
    Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • At the heart of the series is Deano’s friendship with Kit, his timid best mate from the wealthy side of town.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • On the flat arid plains below lives the farming community of the Bezaris, who are generally seen by the Hazerans as a group of privileged, cowardly usurers.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • We will not be defined by the cowardly acts, but instead be defined by our unwavering response and our resolve to defeat them.
    Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • But to defend books coverage in these craven terms is already to concede too much.
    Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Assad’s betrayal was so breathtakingly craven that some people had trouble believing it at first.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
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“Uncourageous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncourageous. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.

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