spineless
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When Callum McGregor eviscerated his own team-mates in the wake of Celtic's stupefying Champions League collapse against LASK, he delivered their one coherent moment of a spineless night.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
“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
Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point, and the pun is very much intended.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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