as in timorous
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Recent Examples of ungallant
Grubby, even criminal, tasks come easily to the unabashedly ungallant Sancho.
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Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
The Times made ungallant references to Taft’s heft, and to the chief reason for his visit, to see his sister.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
The Times made ungallant references to Taft’s heft, and to the chief reason for his visit, to see his sister.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungallant
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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
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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
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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
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Those clumsy tales revealed Chazelle’s pusillanimous career ambitions.Armond White, National Review, 13 Jan. 2023
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Social media has erupted with praise for this cowardly attack.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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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
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That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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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
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LifeLock’s Home Title Monitoring warns of several variations of that dastardly attack.PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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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
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Consider Chatterton’s Fields of This, an exemplary case study, as the hazy slacker rock the Oxnard, California, duo of guitarist-keyboardist Brock Pierce and multi-instrumentalist Logan Scrivner dream up is brash yet diffident.Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
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In the light of Rifkin’s diffident anguish, the heartfelt whimsy of these scenes plays like Allen’s own nostalgic reminiscence of his early, funny stuff—and of the way that his life used to be.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
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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
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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
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Dance sections lacked charm; lyric passages were spiritless; the klezmer episodes in the third movement were strictly goyish.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Yet the club dropped the contest in spiritless fashion, 6-2.Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
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“Ungallant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungallant. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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