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• s  lacking conviction or boldness or courage

• From Bhutan to Japan, the region's antismoking movement is scoring some startling victories: How To Quit Stopping smoking isn't for the fainthearted.
• Before Captain Kent's war is over, he has sunk himself in a degrading attachment, killed a man who threatened to expose him, and made a fainthearted try at suicide.
• That's when I first suspected that sex is not for the fainthearted.

• faint
• timid
• faint-hearted

News & Articles

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• Drew Sharp: Tigers may not need to bite on teams' trade bait
  The back end of the Tigers' bullpen isn't the fright show that sent the baseball fainthearted into panic barely a month ago. Victor Martinez has stabilized the middle of the batting order with a torrid July.
  July 29, 2013 - Detroit Free Press

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Seattle Times
  In his inaugural, Obama noted that Americans have a robust history of sacrifice: "Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the fainthearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only...
• Debra Winger in Los Angeles Times
  PERSPECTIVE: "It was like armor," said Debra Winger of her former ferocity. "It kept the fainthearted at a distance. But perhaps I was too tough."
• David Neill in MiamiHerald.com
  When the cost to produce tomatoes is $7 a box and a lot of times we were getting $3 or $4 a box, that's not a slow death, that's slashing your artery,Neill said. "It's not a game for the fainthearted."