spineless
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“Maybe people do it out of desperation,” she told me, “but it’s spineless and demoralizing.”
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2026
In “The Studio,” Scorsese is hilarious as an avatar of artistic integrity who, of course, gets screwed over by Seth Rogen’s spineless studio head.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025
As per Margaret Hartmann with New York Magazine's Intelligencer, the gift is "peak spineless groveling."
From Salon • Jan. 15, 2025
Sumi told the BBC: "It renders all of their efforts to be inclusive completely performative. I actually find it really spineless."
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2024
A newspaper that only looks at the soft and gentle side of things is like a jellyfish, floppy and spineless.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
Vocabulary lists containing spineless
"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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