slack-spined

A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her.

The Temple Drakes, the Gowan Stevenses and their slack-spined, country-clubbing breed have corrupted these codes, he implies.

In any case, young Gouverneur backed his friend George Washington in the slack-spined, clique-ridden councils of the Congress.