backbone
noun
the spinal column; spine.
backboneless
-
a word derived from
backbone.
Example Sentences
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Hundreds of backboneless "scientists" ranged themselves with the enemies of Darwin.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
For the sake of the story, it was necessary that he should be weak; but he is such a very backboneless man, and yet quite strong enough to support the fabric of the plot.
From Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. by Various
Characterless, backboneless, negative kind of fellows with neither wisdom nor stature abound.
From London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes
We see these victims everywhere shorn of power—weak, nerveless, backboneless, staminaless, gritless people, without forcefulness, mere nonentities because they have ceased working.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
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
