as in timorous
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Recent Examples of ungallant
Grubby, even criminal, tasks come easily to the unabashedly ungallant Sancho.
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Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
The Times made ungallant references to Taft’s heft, and to the chief reason for his visit, to see his sister.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
The Times made ungallant references to Taft’s heft, and to the chief reason for his visit, to see his sister.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungallant
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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
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For years now, U.S. policy toward Syria has been indecisive and timorous, allowing pro-Assad forces to gain ground.Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
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Mark Kelly Americans who are rightfully appalled by the pusillanimous response to anti-Semitism on college campuses have been pulling their donations and calling for restrictions on anti-Israel student groups.Arthur Levitt, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
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Those clumsy tales revealed Chazelle’s pusillanimous career ambitions.Armond White, National Review, 13 Jan. 2023
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Because, in this land of weak governments and cowardly corporations, the Coastal Commission is the rare California institution with a spine.Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The latter has become a franchise so hobbled by its cowardly inability to commit to anything other than its original characters (especially the Skywalkers) and ideas (good versus evil) that it’s basically become stuck inside itself.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2024
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That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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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
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The resulting Trump is so familiar that even his most dastardly behaviors feel a bit flat, and the film begins to bore.Sarah Jones, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
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As their parents unite to battle the dastardly scam which has brought their town to financial ruin, the team is embroiled in a mysterious bank robbery.John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
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In the light of Rifkin’s diffident anguish, the heartfelt whimsy of these scenes plays like Allen’s own nostalgic reminiscence of his early, funny stuff—and of the way that his life used to be.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
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Watching an early appearance of Melanie on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson only left me more intrigued about her ambivalent relationship toward fame: How could the same person be so confident and charismatic behind a guitar, but so diffident and uncomfortable chatting with Carson?Joseph Fenity, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2024
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Since then, Trump has regularly lobbed attacks at the military and its top leaders, accusing them of being politically craven and operationally incompetent.Ronald R. Krebs, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2021
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The callousness of investigators, the craven police interrogation methods that seek to discount the memory of survivors by insisting the truth hinges on minute details and the vitriol of a misogynistic public are all on display in Black Box Diaries.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2024
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Yet the club dropped the contest in spiritless fashion, 6-2.Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
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Lil Wayne is not tolerating spiritless crowds at his shows.Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
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“Ungallant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungallant. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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