| 词汇 | spinelessness |
| 释义 | spinelessness noun[ U ] uk /ˈspaɪn.ləs.nəs/ us /ˈspaɪn.ləs.nəs/ behaviour that shows a lack of determination and an unwillingness to take any risks: 没有勇气;无胆量，怯懦 They fail to carry out their responsibilities out of sheer spinelessness.他们完全没有骨气，无法履行职责。 Not even her worst enemy could have accused her of spinelessness.即使是她最大的敌人也不能指责她没有骨气。 See spineless They will be outraged at his spinelessness for backing down to his boss. I have often reproached my fellow citizens for their spinelessness, self-indulgence, and greed. He berated the government for its spinelessness in failing to tackle the issue. Cowardly be afraid of your own shadowidiom bottle bottle out chicken chicken out cravenness fainthearted gutless lily-livered pantywaist spinelessly timid timidity timidly timorous unheroic weak-kneed wimp wimp out wimpy Examples of spinelessnessspinelessness The governments which, through spinelessness or ideology, support you are also responsible. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I said that they showed their spinelessness by putting up with such things. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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