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
Its glittering pin stripes nodded to traditional menswear, while the yellow leopard front patch was reminiscent of her feline debut.
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Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2026
These yellow sneakers are everywhere right now—from Soho sidewalks to European city streets.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2026
Murphy sorted through a few papers and pulled out a white sheet featuring a grid with boxes highlighted green, yellow or red.
—Zack Meisel, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
Coral snake bodies have bands of black, yellow and red, with the red bookended by yellow.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
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Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2026
These yellow sneakers are everywhere right now—from Soho sidewalks to European city streets.
—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2026
Murphy sorted through a few papers and pulled out a white sheet featuring a grid with boxes highlighted green, yellow or red.
—Zack Meisel, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
Coral snake bodies have bands of black, yellow and red, with the red bookended by yellow.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for yellow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yellow
Adjective
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Umpires, afraid of being overturned, or at least, more aware of the new zone and its limitations, have been calling fewer strikes.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Almost half are personally afraid of losing their job to AI, ranking it among the most acute individual stressors measured in the survey.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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And yet, locals weren't scared off, blinded perhaps by their love of the game.—
Lee Cowan,
CBS News,
3 May 2026
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To him, the gathering in New York was a sign of change, that people are curious enough to give it another look, and not too scared of the potential backlash.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The woman who found Nado said the feline appeared frightened but was in overall good health, according to the news outlet.—
Gina Kalsi,
PEOPLE,
8 May 2026
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Those children hadn’t seemed frightened to me, not visibly anyway.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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The move, Lindon said, is careful.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
9 May 2026
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However, the Vaile Victorian Society, the volunteer group that maintains the house and runs tours, worries that once the house ceases to become a public property, the careful preservation work, which the aged property relies on, will be impossible to maintain.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 May 2026
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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Republicans in Congress have become spineless sycophants to a president who only sees the beauty of this country in dollar signs.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
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The nagging wife, the angry daughter and the spineless detective.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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
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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
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It’s populated by craven, cowardly traitors.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
25 Mar. 2026
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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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“Yellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yellow. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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