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His spineless duplicity confirms that the good guy is actually pretty much a louse.
Bravo’s ‘Online Dating Rituals’ Reveals American Males Are Creepy and Want Sex|Emily Shire|March 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He then offered the spineless excuse that, “A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.”
The Right’s Dangerous Rhetoric: Obama as an ‘Enemy Combatant’|Dean Obeidallah|February 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But no spineless relativism is necessary to recognize that, for most human beings, realness comes in various flavors.
Atheist Philosopher Peter Boghossian’s Guide to Converting Believers|Michael Schulson|November 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
“Spineless” is a charge Romney critics have leveled at the presidential candidate.
A Glimmer of Daylight|Hannah Gross|August 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Taking it on now is strictly Obama's sop to liberals appalled by his spineless obsession with managing public perceptions.
Obama's Desperate Gay Pander|Lee Siegel|February 2, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The called it individualism, but Nelson called it spineless.
The Happy Man|Gerald Wilburn Page
Most spineless fishes have such rudiments in front of their vertical fins.
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2)|David Starr Jordan
Why had he been fool enough to think he could swear a lot of spineless jelly fish to secrecy?
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford|George Randolph Chester
But this time he looked so tired and drawn and spineless that a fish-hook of sudden pity tugged at my throat.
The Prairie Mother|Arthur Stringer
By this no one should infer that they are weak or spineless.
Great Singers on the Art of Singing|James Francis Cooke

British Dictionary definitions for spineless

spineless

/ (ˈspaɪnlɪs) /

adjective

lacking a backbone; invertebrate

having no spiny processesspineless stems

lacking strength of character, resolution, or courage

Derived forms of spineless

spinelessly, adverbspinelessness, noun

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