as in afraid
having or showing a shameful lack of courage
you'll come with us into the cave, unless you're yellow
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Recent Examples of yellow
The restaurant received a yellow placard after chow mein on the prep table measured outside of proper holding temperatures.
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Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Bundled in an oversized yellow hoodie, Funke sat down for a 28-minute interview with Moscow Police Sgt.
—Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2025
Once these yellow, red, orange, or cream blooms appear, squirrels will leave them alone due to their strong, pungent odor.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
Djerf Avenue Poplin Classic Shirt Honey Stripe This 100 percent cotton button-up shirt has the same yellow-and-brown color scheme as the one worn by Roberts and Seyfried.
—Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
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Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Bundled in an oversized yellow hoodie, Funke sat down for a 28-minute interview with Moscow Police Sgt.
—Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2025
Once these yellow, red, orange, or cream blooms appear, squirrels will leave them alone due to their strong, pungent odor.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
Djerf Avenue Poplin Classic Shirt Honey Stripe This 100 percent cotton button-up shirt has the same yellow-and-brown color scheme as the one worn by Roberts and Seyfried.
—Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yellow
Adjective
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When people aren’t afraid to flag phishing emails, report missteps or question suspicious behavior, organizations become more adaptive and resilient.—
Aliasgar Dohadwala,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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According to new research from SoFi, 44% of students and parents feel uninformed about student loans but are probably too afraid to ask questions.—
Brian Walsh,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Families are scared of being torn apart.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Ain’t nobody scared of them boys.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Using towels and a garden hose fitted with a piece of wood, the rescuers guided the frightened kitten through the winding pipes.—
Ronnie Li,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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When 17 children from one classroom inexplicably run out into the night, a frightened insular community starts pointing fingers at their young schoolteacher (Julia Garner) and the sole survivor, Alex (Cary Christopher).—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Both coaches and players have been respectful of the other team all week, careful not to produce any bulletin board material.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
5 Sep. 2025
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Ben Lewis Doherty, playing a boy named Sam whose life is upended by Robbie, is the show’s greatest innocent, a softhearted moppet who warns deer to be careful when crossing the street.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Some also have lost lawyers, dismayed by the pusillanimous behavior of their leaders.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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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
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Played by a sniveling Casey Siemaszko, Billy is spineless and spiteful.—
Sezin Devi Koehler September 1,
EW.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Rather than feigned civility or spineless compromise, a strong response to this prompt will show that a student has integrity and conviction, but is willing to grow and interrogate their ideas through engagement with others.—
Christopher Rim,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
Adjective
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Now innocent children are dying because so many people were too cowardly to speak up.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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The rest of the statement was full of equally cowardly equivocation.—
Sahar Mustafah
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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There are lots of good rebuttals to this craven move.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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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
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“Yellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yellow. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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