Word: spineless
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Auclair called the secret vote a "spineless, wishy-washy move." He said college President Catherine A. Tissinger is also unhappy with him, "but at least she can tell...
Once again, Reagan's advisers deserve the principle blame for this public relations fiasco. Those advisers not directly involved in the scandal were too spineless or misguided to recommend these drastic but necessary measures to the President. And those advisers actually involved in the arms deal used Reagan's reluctance to fire an employee to their advantage...
...RETURNS with no news of Antoine. He has grown more cynical. All around him, he sees the self-serving, the spineless--those who supported the Occupation in hope of getting extra butter rations, who are now covering up their guilt as hastily as they cover up the traces of the lost deportees. Maspero examines how people compromise their principles during a crisis. He invites the reader to consider questions of personal ethics, when the safety of the individual is at stake...
...undergraduates daily undergo a dreaded ritual of emitting the grating sound of a tire being punctured by a rusty nail. Don't look so innocent you whey-faced, chicken-butt cowards. Yea, I know it's not you--its the next guy. Always the next guy. Well listen up, spineless--it's a community problem now, a problem we are going to have to face and deal with together...
...human drives cannot be deterred. Murder, for instance, or war, or the neurotic love of a woman for a man who has hurt her. About the last, Hobson should know. Most of the men in her long life-she is now 83-seem to have turned out faithless or spineless, or both, and she has given them all ample opportunity to prove...