poor-spirited

adjective

Definition of poor-spiritednext
as in yellow

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poor-spirited
  1. yellow
  2. pusillanimous
  3. spiritless
  4. unheroic
  5. craven
  6. gutless
  7. dastardly
  8. cowardly
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
Definition of yellow
Adjective
  • 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
  • Those clumsy tales revealed Chazelle’s pusillanimous career ambitions.
    Armond White, National Review, 13 Jan. 2023
Definition of pusillanimous
Adjective
  • Yet the club dropped the contest in spiritless fashion, 6-2.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Lil Wayne is not tolerating spiritless crowds at his shows.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
Definition of spiritless
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
Definition of unheroic
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of craven
Adjective
  • Two baseballs flew down toward the San Diego Padres’ Jurickson Profar from the left-field corner stands, the gutless moves of two cowards.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Putin’s machismo posturing, additionally, is undergirded by a view of Russia as a country of real men opposing a pampered, gutless, and decadent West.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2015
Definition of gutless
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of dastardly
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of cowardly
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