uncourageous

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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
  • Columbia University, through a thoroughly pusillanimous capitulation to a multi-million-dollar threat from the Trump administration, has put that conviction in the grave.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • There was no fanfare — indeed no announcement or change in Oscar rules — but a firestorm of controversy resulted, followed by the Academy’s cowardly, pusillanimous silence on the issue.
    Armond White, National Review, 5 Mar. 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
  • Underdogs don't come much more awkward than Carrie White (so memorably played by Sissy Spacek), the timid, tragic heroine of Brian De Palma's freaky Stephen King adaptation.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • More timid than her siblings, Sheryl told Arcadia News that Sonora refused to dance at her first recital.
    Nicole Briese, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In the new showbiz comedy The Studio, Bryan Cranston has a recurring role as Griffin Mill, the craven movie executive played by Tim Robbins in the 1992 film The Player.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2025
  • In any event Marshall, a craven idiot, is a raucous, vulgar sendup of the bedrock American principle of Manifest Destiny.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 7 Mar. 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
  • There was another dastardly transition during James’s Wednesday-afternoon pool party, which was attended only by the cast; Scheana’s sister, Courtney Shay; and the four guys who dropped off the BevMo order that James asked to stay to pad out the numbers.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Even despite his loss to Cody Rhodes at Royal Rumble, Owens has been doing some of the best work of his career as a former babyface-turned-heel who feels justified in recent dastardly actions.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Uncourageous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncourageous. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.

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