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
  • In addition to selling yellow mustard and hot sauce, the division makes ketchup, onion flavorings and other products.
    Nick Turner, Bloomberg.com, 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
  • Sam Dickinson, who has dominated the OHL by playing a freewheeling style — sometimes to a fault — looks like a timid shell of himself and like he has been told not to be himself.
    Scott Wheeler, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
  • But at the professional level, in addition to his lack of accuracy shooting the ball, Sheppard has looked timid and tentative on the court, passing up open shots and unable to make plays off the dribble.
    Rahat Huq, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of timid
Adjective
  • To keep Kiara's mind off things, Rafiki tells the story of young Mufasa (Aaron Pierre), who got washed away from his family by a huge flood and was saved by Taka (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), the prince of his pride who shows early signs of his craven nature and eventual heel turn as Scar.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Dancing around Spider-Man without ever getting to use him also contributed to the feeling that these spin-off films were merely exercises in, ahem, craven opportunism.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of craven
Adjective
  • Social media has erupted with praise for this cowardly attack.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The cowardly cook will turn to squid as a replacement, but only cuttlefish deliver the essential alien squirm, and the relevant recipes are a treat.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of cowardly
Adjective
  • LifeLock’s Home Title Monitoring warns of several variations of that dastardly attack.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
  • 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
Definition of dastardly
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