uncourageous

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncourageous
Adjective
  • Native viburnums, such as Arrowwood and Blackhaw, show off red, yellow and purple foliage in the fall, along with berries that also become winter bird feeders.
    Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In late summer, stop watering and when the leaves start to yellow, cut them about 2 inches above the bulb.
    Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
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
  • 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 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
  • Hundreds of timorous Timothée Chalamet lookalikes congregated in Washington Square Park.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In it, Luna is seen gently approaching a very timid Ronnie, who is facing away, staring toward the couch.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Arguably, Sweeney — who is almost unrecognizable as the timid and brunette Margaret — steals the show.
    Itzel Luna, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • There are lots of good rebuttals to this craven move.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Texas Governor Greg Abbott is under severe pressure from President Donald Trump to restart one of the most craven and self-destructive practices of American politics in the 21st century: predatory gerrymandering.
    Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • Now innocent children are dying because so many people were too cowardly to speak up.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The rest of the statement was full of equally cowardly equivocation.
    Sahar Mustafah August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • While Shrek pouts about missing his solo ogre days, the dastardly Rumpelstiltskin takes advantage, offering him a contract to relive that romanticized time in his life — for a day.
    Skyler Trepel September 1, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Many previous productions of Hamlet have emphasized the prince’s drive to avenge the death of his father, King Hamlet, at the hands of his uncle, the dastardly Claudius.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Uncourageous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncourageous. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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