fainthearted
adjective
lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
faintheartedly
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a word derived from
fainthearted.
Example Sentences
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Second pause—the bell boring on, but more faintheartedly, as if doubting whether it ever would reach that nerve.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown
Do we not often think that our resources are absurdly insufficient, and so, faintheartedly make them still less?
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren
And off he started very faintheartedly, and no wonder.
From Allan Quatermain by Henry Rider Haggard
All this time, however, we are loitering faintheartedly on the threshold of our story.
From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
After that," he said, faintheartedly, for there was a sparkle in Nelly's eye which discouraged him, "we shall settle down in London, and you shall see all you want to see.
From Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan
