spineless

comparative more spineless · superlative most spineless

1. not comparableHaving no spines, prickles, or thorns.

   Synonyms: unspined, unspiny · Antonyms: spined, spiny

2. not comparableHaving no spinal column.

   Synonyms: invertebrate

3. Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character.

   You can laugh / A spineless laugh

   1997, “Exit Music (For a Film)”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead

   2 more examples

   If this results in a society which MacIntyre has criticized as being the province of the manager, the aesthete and the analyst, types almost sinister in their philosophical lightmindedness, superficiality, programmed uninterestingness, and their depressingly spineless willingness to grant the presence of 'despicable types' for the sake of political freedom, then so be it.

   2006, Robin Holt, Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights, →ISBN

   Killership requires a person to become brave and polite. It is not deal of weakwilled and spineless people. This deal likes neither cheating nor foolishness.

   2012, Vagif Sultanly, Iraj Ismaely, Modern Azerbaijanian Prose

   Synonyms: invertebrate, gutless, boneless, cowardly, backboneless, base, soft, bitch-ass