as in timid
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Woods stars as Louise, who transforms from timid wallflower into the famed burlesque dancer known as Gypsy Rose Lee.—
Kristen Tauer,
WWD,
20 Jan. 2025 -
The video introduces several of GRRR's residents, including George, a timid golden retriever who was abused and is now slowly building his confidence around people.—
Lydia Patrick,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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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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More recently, Jovovich played the villainous Blood Queen in the 2019 Hellboy reboot.—
Danny Horn,
EW.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Instead of hinging on Kang, who posed the sort of extra-dimensional threat across time and space that only the Sorcerer Supreme could handle, it's now shifted focus to the villainous Doctor Doom, as played by Robert Downey Jr.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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For an unscrupulous swindler that's a nice set of skills to have, but with the Empire in control for over 20 years, a Force-sensitive pirate's life wasn't a smooth ride.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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Gracey credits Williams for not asking for anything to be cut from the film, even the more unscrupulous parts of his story.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA TODAY,
10 Jan. 2025
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Instead, the anti-death penalty interests in this country conduct their arguments in insidious and even cowardly ways, all in effort to avoid a clear yes or no debate about the death penalty itself.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
18 Dec. 2024
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Social media has erupted with praise for this cowardly attack.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
17 Dec. 2024
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Between the lines: One view is that these actions are simply craven pandering.—
Felix Salmon,
Axios,
13 Jan. 2025
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The main one is that the powerbrokers in the MLB offices are craven, and their souls have been replaced with line graphs going up and up and up.—
Grant Brisbee,
The Athletic,
18 July 2024
Adjective
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Objective voters who watched the recent documentary about Lev Parnas, once a Trump ally, should fear a redux of a Cabinet running the government for an angry, unhinged, unprincipled man.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Oct. 2024
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All of this coincided with a period of unprincipled practices in the media.—
Meg Walters,
Glamour,
20 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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For starters, Rate-A-Queen is back — no surprise after the success of the dastardly Plane Jane versus the hero Nymphia Wind.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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There is a chance too that an outsider broke into the internals of AI and made dastardly changes.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Nebbishy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nebbishy. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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