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Poor-spirited   /pˈurspˈɪrɪtɪd/   Listen
Poor-spirited

adjective
1.
Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful.  Synonyms: pusillanimous, unmanly.





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"Poor-spirited" Quotes from Famous Books



... company in another. The missing of an opera the first night would be more afflicting to her than the death of a child. She pities all the valuable part of her own sex, and calls every woman of a prudent, modest, retired life, a poor-spirited, unpolished creature. What a mortification would it be to Fulvia, if she knew that her setting herself to view is but exposing herself, and that she ...
— Essays and Tales • Joseph Addison


Words linked to "Poor-spirited" :   cowardly, fearful, pusillanimous, unmanly


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