/?spa?n.l?s.li/in a way thatshowsalackofdeterminationand anunwillingnessto take anyrisks:没有勇气地;无胆量地,怯懦地He spinelesslyagreesto hersuggestion.他毫无骨气地同意了她的建议。Shebelievesthe Government spinelesslyduckedtheissueof using a zeroemissionsfuel.她认为政府毫无骨气地回避了使用零排放燃料的问题。SeespinelessMore examples
You don't have tositback spinelessly andletthingshappen.
Politiciansyieldspinelessly to theshort-terminterestsoffishermen.
TheveteranbroadcasterlaidintoMPsfor spinelessly "doing what they're told".
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See more results ?(Definition ofspinelesslyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofspinelessly
spinelesslyNot having shown that consideration for anybody, they might at least have been lessspinelesslyindulgent of her.FromProject GutenbergBeside one of them a tall young man was sunkspinelesslyin a chair, relaxed to the still warmth of the day.FromProject GutenbergThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/spinelessly##