nebbishy

adjective

Definition of nebbishynext
as in timid

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nebbishy
  1. timid
  2. pusillanimous
  3. villainous
  4. unscrupulous
  5. cowardly
  6. craven
  7. unprincipled
  8. dastardly
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
  • Black bears are generally timid and more likely to avoid humans, while grizzly bears are known to be more territorial and larger in size.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of timid
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
  • And as luck will have it, the British actress will soon be seen as a different kind of villainous nun, playing a reverend mother of the Bene Gesserit in the HBO spinoff Dune: Prophecy.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024
  • As decreed by Bill Skarsgård's villainous Marquis de Gramont, the Continental was blown up and Winston's friend and second in command, Charon, was executed.
    EW.com, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of villainous
Adjective
  • The Electoral College has not worked as Dickinson hoped, to protect the people from unscrupulous politicians.
    Jane E. Calvert / Made by History, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Understand that sometimes, unscrupulous companies don't follow the rules.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of unscrupulous
Adjective
  • 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
  • The latter has become a franchise so hobbled by its cowardly inability to commit to anything other than its original characters (especially the Skywalkers) and ideas (good versus evil) that it’s basically become stuck inside itself.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2024
Definition of cowardly
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
  • And if an unprincipled president began his tenure by firing senior military officers for partisan political reasons, the military would lose trust in the executive branch and tensions would grow between the two sides.
    Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Cazale excelled, instead, at playing people who are weak, weird, unprincipled, and visibly uncomfortable in their own skins.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
Definition of unprincipled
Adjective
  • The resulting Trump is so familiar that even his most dastardly behaviors feel a bit flat, and the film begins to bore.
    Sarah Jones, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
  • As their parents unite to battle the dastardly scam which has brought their town to financial ruin, the team is embroiled in a mysterious bank robbery.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of dastardly
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