uncourageous

Definition of uncourageousnext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncourageous
Adjective
  • In perhaps one of their most public twinning moments, the mom and daughter don yellow coats and complementary hats at Epsom Downs Racecourse.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The blue band represents the predictions from a dark matter-and-dark energy dominated Universe that follows the rules of Einstein’s general relativity, while the yellow band represents the predictions from a dark matter-free Universe that follows the rules of MOND.
    Big Think, Big Think, 21 Apr. 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
  • One of the earliest of American masculinity influencers was President Theodore Roosevelt, who touted his own transformation from a timid, effeminate man – local presses mocked him in his early career – to a rugged outdoorsman.
    Miriam Eve Mora, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Sergio Romano and Pierpaolo Capovilla star as two fifty-something men from Italy’s northern Veneto area who befriend a timid student from Naples, played by Filippo Scotti.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The joke is on the cowardly villagers, and on Hoja himself, all of whom now have to live in a village terrorized by two war elephants instead of one.
    Perin Gürel, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Your writing is disgusting and your lack of confronting this team front office head on is an enormous act of cowardly proportions.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • It’s populated by craven, cowardly traitors.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
  • In a particularly craven twist, this letter enlisted the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection Clause to halt or hinder affinity programming in schools.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
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“Uncourageous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncourageous. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.

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