uncourageous

adjective

Definition of uncourageousnext
as in yellow

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncourageous
  1. yellow
  2. pusillanimous
  3. unheroic
  4. timorous
  5. timid
  6. craven
  7. cowardly
  8. dastardly
Adjective
  • The look features bright coral eyeshadow covering the eyelid, a fuchsia shade in the crease, and a swipe of fluorescent yellow eyeliner on the outside half of the eye and right under the brow.
    Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 20 July 2017
  • Three prominent Austin chefs teamed up with the Youngblood family to build a new restaurant from scratch that looks like a legacy chicken dinner house, down to the bright blue-and-yellow colors and the helpings of hot yeast rolls with honey.
    Bud Kennedy, star-telegram, 19 July 2017
Definition of yellow
Adjective
  • Mark Kelly Americans who are rightfully appalled by the pusillanimous response to anti-Semitism on college campuses have been pulling their donations and calling for restrictions on anti-Israel student groups.
    Arthur Levitt, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Those clumsy tales revealed Chazelle’s pusillanimous career ambitions.
    Armond White, National Review, 13 Jan. 2023
Definition of pusillanimous
Adjective
  • That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.
    Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In the world of The Boys, based on the gleefully scabrous 2000s indie comic-book series of the same name by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, superheroes are real, pop-culture-dominating, and with rare exceptions, entirely unheroic.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024
Definition of unheroic
Adjective
  • Phillips has made a jukebox spectacle that’s bold in conception but oddly cautious, even timorous, in execution.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • For years now, U.S. policy toward Syria has been indecisive and timorous, allowing pro-Assad forces to gain ground.
    Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
Definition of timorous
Adjective
  • The video, which has been viewed more than 1.4 million times to date, shows the golden retriever offering the timid stray their favorite toy.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Outside of those two hits, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers sometimes sounds timid and tentative compared to the albums that would follow.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of timid
Adjective
  • Since then, Trump has regularly lobbed attacks at the military and its top leaders, accusing them of being politically craven and operationally incompetent.
    Ronald R. Krebs, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The callousness of investigators, the craven police interrogation methods that seek to discount the memory of survivors by insisting the truth hinges on minute details and the vitriol of a misogynistic public are all on display in Black Box Diaries.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of craven
Adjective
  • How ironic that in its cowardly failure to stand up to Donald Trump’s constant attacks on a free press, the Tribune Editorial Board is, by this action, finally proving him right.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Because, in this land of weak governments and cowardly corporations, the Coastal Commission is the rare California institution with a spine.
    Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of cowardly
Adjective
  • If the evildoers weren’t readily allowed access to the AI, the barrier to their dastardly ways would be stiffened.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Ultimately, the fifth and most kindhearted Garvey sister, Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), got the job done, murdering her dastardly husband and staging what appeared to be an effective cover-up with the help of her sisters and neighbor Roger (Michael Smiley).
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of dastardly
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