| 词汇 | spinelessly |
| 释义 | spinelessly adverb uk /ˈspaɪn.ləs.li/ us /ˈspaɪn.ləs.li/ in a way that shows a lack of determination and an unwillingness to take any risks: 没有勇气地;无胆量地，怯懦地 He spinelessly agrees to her suggestion.他毫无骨气地同意了她的建议。 She believes the Government spinelessly ducked the issue of using a zero emissions fuel. 她认为政府毫无骨气地回避了使用零排放燃料的问题。 See spineless You don't have to sit back spinelessly and let things happen. Politicians yield spinelessly to the short-term interests of fishermen. The veteran broadcaster laid into MPs for spinelessly "doing what they're told". Cowardly be afraid of your own shadowidiom bottle bottle out chicken chicken out cravenness fainthearted gutless lily-livered pantywaist spinelessness timid timidity timidly timorous unheroic weak-kneed wimp wimp out wimpy Examples of spinelesslyspinelessly Not having shown that consideration for anybody, they might at least have been less spinelessly indulgent of her. From Project Gutenberg Beside one of them a tall young man was sunk spinelessly in a chair, relaxed to the still warmth of the day. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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