backbone
noun
the spinal column; spine.
backboneless
-
a word derived from
backbone.
Example Sentences
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First, a seashell is one of the 100,000 species of backboneless animals belonging to the zoological group known as the Mollusca.
From Let's Collect Rocks and Shells by Shell Union Oil Corporation
It appears as backboneless and devoid of principle as 'opportunism' in politics appears to an old-fashioned french legitimist, or to a fanatical believer in the divine right of the people.
From Pragmatism by William James
"I shall be sorry, too, if a nice little woman like Miss Ankers marries such a backboneless creature."
From The Solitary Farm by Fergus Hume
If it had kept on this way Young might have become meek and backboneless, and such an extreme would be even worse than that of self-importance.
From The Adventures of a Freshman by Jesse Lynch Williams
Characterless, backboneless, negative kind of fellows with neither wisdom nor stature abound.
From London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes
