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• n  the quality of lacking a strong character; an irresolute disposition

• Or the utter spinelessness of Democrats where, faced with angry Republican BS, they never fight back but rather cave toward the path of least resistance, regardless of how much it .
• During her last years she still fought her good fight against cardplaying and female bareleggedness (because of the "spinelessness" of men).
• Yet instead of caricaturing diplomacy by invoking the Munich Agreement as code for spinelessness, it is worth studying Chamberlain's failed effort in the Munich talks for lessons .

News & Articles

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• A Private University Might Have Saved Detroit
  Detroit's bankruptcy filing last week and the decades of decline that preceded it have been a predictable political and historical Rorschach test. The right blames the city's demise on moral failures and weak character -- the banana-republic-caliber corruption and fiscal fecklessness of its politicians, the greed of its unions , the spinelessness of automobile executives who gave into them.
  July 27, 2013 - Business Insider

Quotes

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• Boris Johnson in News24
  It is a comment on American bullying and British spinelessness that this farce is continuing, because Gary McKinnon is not and never has been any kind of threat to American security,wrote Johnson. "Mr McKinnon believes in UFOs, and he is...
• Nikolai Miaskovsky in New York Times
  Regarding Prokofiev's music, Miaskovsky wrote, "What a pleasure to come across this vivid phenomenon amid the morass of spinelessness and anemia of today!"