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gutlessness

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gut·less  (gtls)
adj. Slang
1. Lacking courage or drive.
2. Lacking substance; weak or insignificant.
gutless·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.gutlessness - the trait of lacking courage and determination; fearful of loss or injury
fearfulness - the trait of being afraid
gutsiness, pluck, pluckiness - the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury


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Evans places blame primarily on the candidates who withdrew for their "collective act of gutlessness," the kind of bowing and scraping to the Democratic establishment, such as it is, that has provoked so many primary voters to abandon early favorites like Kerry and Lieberman to support the rebel Howard Dean.
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Our gutlessness, our refusal to tell the truth, our fear of being slandered as "anti-Semites"--the most loathsome of libels against any journalist-- means that we are aiding and abetting terrible deeds in the Middle East.
Fear of Being Slandered as "Anti-Semites" Means We Are Abetting ... by Fisk, Robert / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Naylor suggests then, that, for the Nedeed wives and the novel's other dispossessed women, especially, Linden Hills is a site of bourgeois-male gutlessness.
Suicide or Messianic Self-Sacrifice?: Exhuming Willa's Body in Gloria ... by Okonkwo, Christopher N. / African American Review
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