How to Use gutless in a Sentence

gutless

adjective

• The gutless, undisciplined first quarter shoved the Cavs into a 23-point hole and forced them to fight back the rest of the night.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2021
• That jab gets to the heart of these protests: the sense that stay-at-home advocates are gutless wimps willing to let a virus boss us around.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 22 Apr. 2020
• The waves at Inch were ideal for first-timers, but too gutless and small for our purposes.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• The people who control things, plus those in the media who enable them, are greedy, gutless or brain dead.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
• The former makes the car feel utterly gutless, the latter has the petrol engine revving too hard and often.
  — Alun Taylor, Ars Technica, 20 June 2017
• Even more amazing, though, is how quickly the gutless animals grow back their organs.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2015
• But, unlike many of the mindless, gutless science-y blockbusters that dominate the studio system, these sci-fi flicks will lodge in your brain.
  — Jason Silverman, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2006
• Why would anyone devote her life to a brainless, spineless, gutless group of parasites?
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
• But to almost take a man’s life, especially in front of one’s kids, that wasn’t resisting, in his back at point-blank range, is a heartless and gutless situation.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 25 Aug. 2020
• But to almost take a guy's life, especially in front of one's kids, that wasn't resisting, in his back at point-blank range, is a heartless and gutless situation.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2020
• Some Republicans are too gutless to follow their consciences.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019
• The worst was the seemingly gutless reaction from teammates as their quarterback lay helmetless and helpless.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 25 Oct. 2020
• But yes: If Carlson is indeed snarking about Hannity’s loyalty to Trump in whispers to media reporters, that’s gutless.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
• Basic message: Wagner, savior of children; Wolf, gutless trash.
  — John Baer, Philly.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Someone at Chevrolet decided that the failing Corvair could be repositioned as an ideal runabout for women: rear-engined and thus light-steering, gutless enough not to frighten a spinster, cute as a button in pastel colors.
  — Bruce McCall, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2020
• Now, after another preventable national tragedy, too many Republicans are similarly mealy-mouthed, too gutless to even name the problems facing America (white supremacy, guns), let alone try to solve them.
  — Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 27 Feb. 2018
• The series unfolds against a larger maelstrom of gutless mismanagement and abdication of responsibility on the federal, state and city levels in the wake of Katrina.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
• The word might describe any number of handsome young men who carelessly rip through one woman’s heart after another, never actively deciding to create havoc but doing so anyway, out of gutless passivity.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
• The gutless administrators and butt-kissing Boards will retire and otherwise move on, never accepting responsibility for their failures.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024