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词汇 gutless
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Definition of gutless in English:

gutless

adjectiveˈɡʌtləsˈɡətləs
informal
  • Lacking courage or determination.

    〈非正式〉怯懦的,缺乏勇气的;无毅力的

    I should have had the support of my team but they are gutless
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But, let's face it, I'm gutless and as such I haven't sent her a thing.
    • Is there any reason not to think of these people as gutless creeps, prepared to do the decent thing providing it requires no bravery on their part?
    • It would be a gutless government that pulled out now, leaving our key allies, the US and the UK, isolated.
    • Let's eradicate gutless eye-gouging cowards from the game before things get that far.
    • And the key is that we're going to do everything in our power to put faces on these gutless cowards that committed this crime.
    • They know it - but they won't say a word because they are too greedy or too gutless.
    • The happy thing about academics is that they are typically such gutless cowards when faced with anything like a real public outcry.
    • It would have been an act of cowardice to back out, a kind of gutless weakness…
    • Of course this didn't happen because so many men are gutless.
    • Smug, gutless parasites they are, the lot of them.
    • Strength is an attractive quality in a woman, but you'd have to be a pretty gutless man not to stick up for a woman you cared about.
    • I find ‘near-impeachable’ as applied to ‘the President and his Cabinet’ to be gutless disapproval.
    • But what I have seen are people who are hell bent on telling me that I am a gutless, useless quitter and loser.
    • Or do you think the gutless coward has sex-changed himself into obscurity?
    • That said, I really hated this film, and not because it's so dumb, but because it's so timid and gutless.
    • He is a gutless wimp as he has proved since Vietnam.
    • So now it becomes apparent that in addition to being a gutless liar, you are also a clueless mass of obtuseness.
    • Once again, the gutless move would be to write a memo detailing my reservations with the new duty hours.
    • They should be saved from themselves by those who profess to run the sport, but then professional boxing was ever the domain of the gutless administrator.
    • It announced that he is in fact a gutless coward, a scared little girl and absolute joke.
    Synonyms
    cowardly, faint-hearted, lily-livered, chicken-hearted, pigeon-hearted, spiritless, spineless, craven

Derivatives

  • gutlessly

  • adverb
    informal
    • Without him, in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a strong chance that the popular poetry revival of that time would have ended up gutlessly simplistic.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The middle ground is boring; it gutlessly avoids grappling with outlying ideas.
      • No, I am spinelessly, gutlessly, violently terrified of flying.
      • What a ridiculous and gutlessly underhanded stunt.
      • And just as the Inuit have many words for snow, we have a plethora of epithets for excrement, ranging all the way from the gutlessly genteel to the egregiously gross.
  • gutlessness

  • noun
    informal
    • Officials become a machine when they raise hands in unanimous agreement to pass legislation or make some decisions, a sign not of solidarity but of mental vacuity and gutlessness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Don't mistake their reluctance to strike as gutlessness.
      • The extremely unedifying combination of the episcopal gutlessness on display in DC and the bureaucratic contempt for the flock on display here has a number of people livid.
      • This priest, showing the gutlessness which has characterized him for quite some time, bolted and ran when a man could have been dying because of him.
      • After the raid - and an unconcealed display of gutlessness by the major - the commando squad is forced to cross the blazing desert for a rendezvous with their reconnaissance team.

Rhymes

cutlass

Definition of gutless in US English:

gutless

adjectiveˈɡətləsˈɡətləs
informal
  • Lacking courage or determination.

    〈非正式〉怯懦的,缺乏勇气的;无毅力的

    I should have had the support of my team but they are gutless
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That said, I really hated this film, and not because it's so dumb, but because it's so timid and gutless.
    • And the key is that we're going to do everything in our power to put faces on these gutless cowards that committed this crime.
    • Let's eradicate gutless eye-gouging cowards from the game before things get that far.
    • Of course this didn't happen because so many men are gutless.
    • He is a gutless wimp as he has proved since Vietnam.
    • But what I have seen are people who are hell bent on telling me that I am a gutless, useless quitter and loser.
    • It would be a gutless government that pulled out now, leaving our key allies, the US and the UK, isolated.
    • It would have been an act of cowardice to back out, a kind of gutless weakness…
    • They know it - but they won't say a word because they are too greedy or too gutless.
    • Strength is an attractive quality in a woman, but you'd have to be a pretty gutless man not to stick up for a woman you cared about.
    • Is there any reason not to think of these people as gutless creeps, prepared to do the decent thing providing it requires no bravery on their part?
    • So now it becomes apparent that in addition to being a gutless liar, you are also a clueless mass of obtuseness.
    • It announced that he is in fact a gutless coward, a scared little girl and absolute joke.
    • But, let's face it, I'm gutless and as such I haven't sent her a thing.
    • Or do you think the gutless coward has sex-changed himself into obscurity?
    • The happy thing about academics is that they are typically such gutless cowards when faced with anything like a real public outcry.
    • They should be saved from themselves by those who profess to run the sport, but then professional boxing was ever the domain of the gutless administrator.
    • Once again, the gutless move would be to write a memo detailing my reservations with the new duty hours.
    • Smug, gutless parasites they are, the lot of them.
    • I find ‘near-impeachable’ as applied to ‘the President and his Cabinet’ to be gutless disapproval.
    Synonyms
    cowardly, faint-hearted, lily-livered, chicken-hearted, pigeon-hearted, spiritless, spineless, craven
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