gutless

[guht-lis]

adjective

Informal.

1. lacking courage, fortitude, or determination.

gutless

/ ˈɡʌtlɪs /

adjective

1. informal,  lacking courage or determination

Other Word Forms

• gutlessness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of gutless¹

1600–10 for literal sense; gut + -less

Example Sentences

Not long after his suspension from Reform, Lowe set up his Crowdfunder - accusing ministers of failing victims and saying: "Our gutless political class is too cowardly to even start to process what has truly happened."

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I have been a bit gutless with City recently and have backed them to win games like this against the teams around them in the table - like last week against Forest for example.

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I was totally gutless last week, going for Manchester United to draw with Brighton.

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Graham: Yet another gutless performance, running out of ideas.

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Members of the group did indeed know Ray McDonald, with one posting a newspaper article from a previous trial in which the judge described him as "gutless".

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