(a.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
(a.) Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
(a.) Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.
(n.) A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.
(v. t.) To make timorous; to frighten.
Example Sentences:
(1) An unprincipled coward with the backbone of an amoeba."
(2) But cowardly useful idiots of Warwick have banned @MaryamNamazie.” On Sunday night the union released a statement reversing the decision, which it stated had gone against normal procedures.
(3) On Wednesday she declared that if Sir Gideon had sent Chloe Smith unprotected on to Newsnight, then he was "cowardly as well as arrogant".
(4) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(5) But in recent years, directors have sought out the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood ( There Will Be Blood ), the Chemical Brothers ( Hanna ) and Nick Cave ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ).
(6) Africans yelled at the police, "Cowards" and "Kill the white men."
(7) The only real black spot was that a cowardly Britain stood by in the 1930s and allowed Hitler and Mussolini to help General Franco win the Spanish civil war , pushing it into dictatorship and encouraging Nazi Germany to launch the second world war.
(8) It resulted in a royal command performance, a big hit and an Oscar win for Coward.
(9) It’s just one in a long line of cowardly and slimy moves by Ryan, who is really just Trump in a more aesthetically appealing wrapper.
(10) Though he strongly disapproved of much of what later took shape as "New Labour", which he saw, among other things, as historically cowardly, he was without question the single most influential intellectual forerunner of Labour's increasingly iconoclastic 1990s revisionism.
(11) I don’t know who you think you are, you cowardly, small-minded xenophobe who did this, but you do not speak for the community,” he added.
(12) An emotional Obama ran through a litany of Isis human-rights abuses, from rape to enslavement, calling them “cowardly acts of violence.” In a vague reference to Americans held captive by Isis or near its path in Iraq, Obama said the US would “do everything we can to protect our people,” a formulation that has preceded US military action in the past.
(13) Erase even more, you cowardly regime,” Abo Bakr wrote on a wall in a message to the whitewashers.
(14) With Veep , rather than striving young idealists, you have cowardly egomaniacs and bunglers who are involved in endless arse-covering exercises.
(15) Some of the strongest criticism came from Travis Tygaart, the head of Usada, who called the cyber attacks “cowardly and despicable” and reiterated that the athletes named had done nothing wrong.
(16) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(17) With these unmanned craft, governments can fight a coward's war, a god's war, harming only the unnamed.
(18) Photograph: Reuters Elizabeth Bourgault, a runner who survived the blasts with injuries, also called Tsarnaev a coward.
(19) Conceived as a "response" to Ben Affleck's Oscar-nominated take on the 1979 hostage crisis, it promises a tale of cowardly US diplomats who are treated with kindness and eventually delivered to safety by their Iranian hosts.
(20) "I think there is only one explanation about this: that the family has been the victim of repressive measures, which are cruel and cowardly."
Spineless
Definition:
(a.) Having no spine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(2) It makes the ICC look spineless and toothless.” Ultimately, Libya’s state today is about more than one man, and many feel that the western governments who were eager to get Gaddafi out failed to help Libya stabilise after his death.
(3) The TSP for ssa-40a overlapped the TSP for homoeotic transformation of aristae into tarsi but did not overlap the TSP for spineless effects.
(4) What's certain, though, is that nothing could have been worse than keeping the spineless Ayrault at his side after last weekend's drubbing at the local elections and the loss of 175 municipalities.
(5) But a blend of opportunism on the right that flagrantly mischaracterises the issue, and spinelessness on the left that refuses to address it.
(6) I want to tell them how spineless they have been,” said junior doctor Mukhtar Ahmed.
(7) We find the government response to this issue is weak, lazy and bordering on spineless.
(8) They don't have the strength of character … Instead they show submissiveness, spinelessness, lack of punctuality, and many other factors which prevent them from becoming political activists."
(9) The second is the spineless hypocrisy of western governments, not least our own, who take their oil, and hope for their money.
(10) The Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, said that the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who stopped short of branding Trump’s remarks as racist, was “the poster boy for Republicans’ spinelessness to allow Donald Trump to be the nominee”.
(11) The tail is spineless and provided with dorsolateral folds.
(12) Speaking at the University College London occupation this morning, Porter said: " For too long the NUS has perhaps been too cautious and too spineless about being committed to supporting student activism.
(13) Threatened with a no-confidence vote, the NUS president, Aaron Porter, recently apologised for the union's "spineless" caution toward student activism and promised more support.
(14) This is well behind the old rates, but steep enough to send the more spineless Tories running for the hills.
(15) NUS president Aaron Porter apologised today for his "spineless" lack of public support for university occupations around the country.
(16) He was also scathing about the United Russia party – from which he resigned in disgust last week – calling it a spineless servant of the Kremlin run by feeble idiots.
(17) Fitnesses were obtained for the male segregants of the two "complex loci," spineless-spineless aristapedia and radius incompletus-inturned.
(18) S. bovis was previously described as possessing spineless tubercles.
(19) He condemned Bellfield, who refused to give evidence or appear in the dock for sentence, as "spineless and gutless" for hiding behind his defence QC and challenging the testimony of every witness.
(20) The original scant covering of spineless, truncated microtriches was supplemented by a population of microvilli covering the entire surface of protoscoleces in the early stages of formation.