uncourageous

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncourageous
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
  • Three prominent Austin chefs teamed up with the Youngblood family to build a new restaurant from scratch that looks like a legacy chicken dinner house, down to the bright blue-and-yellow colors and the helpings of hot yeast rolls with honey.
    Bud Kennedy, star-telegram, 19 July 2017
Adjective
  • Some also have lost lawyers, dismayed by the pusillanimous behavior of their leaders.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
  • The second believed the United States could attain comprehensive security through military-technological means and saw diplomacy as a quixotic or pusillanimous enterprise that dishonored and weakened the country.
    A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
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
Adjective
  • Hundreds of timorous Timothée Chalamet lookalikes congregated in Washington Square Park.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Adjective
  • The slope of that ramp makes Pike’s Peak look timid.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 May 2025
  • The confident smile the until then timid Giulio wears on his face as a result is equally cliched.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • To abet Trump’s fake reality, the craven House Republicans refused to put up a plaque honoring the police officers and others who defended the Capitol that awful day.
    Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
  • This year’s retreat from DEI policies is merely a continuation of that craven approach.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • Those who resort to violence to undermine our state and nation must be held accountable, and our state leaders must reinforce through decisive action that these cowardly attacks will not be tolerated.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2025
  • The cowardly capitulation of Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps are negative examples to be learned from.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The bi-tone bezel, incidentally, is the key to keeping track of dastardly deeds in two different time zones simultaneously.
    Chris Haslam, Wired News, 23 May 2025
  • Naturally, this doesn't last long, and he gets called in to help nab the elusive arms dealer Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) — the most dastardly villain he's faced yet.
    EW.com, EW.com, 21 May 2025
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“Uncourageous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncourageous. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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