nebbishy

adjective

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  1. timid
  2. pusillanimous
  3. villainous
  4. unscrupulous
  5. cowardly
  6. craven
  7. unprincipled
  8. dastardly
Adjective
  • Wu was seen as timid at the beginning of the migrant crisis, staying in the background while Healey seized a Roxbury community rec center as a migrant shelter.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Of course, a lot of Republicans don’t feel that way because they’re being tricked into returning to a George W. Bush-era mindset where Democrats are weak and timid on the world stage while Republicans are tough and firm and willing to bomb the hell out of anyone who stands in their way.
    — Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 23 Mar. 2025
Definition of timid
Adjective
  • Columbia University, through a thoroughly pusillanimous capitulation to a multi-million-dollar threat from the Trump administration, has put that conviction in the grave.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • There was no fanfare — indeed no announcement or change in Oscar rules — but a firestorm of controversy resulted, followed by the Academy’s cowardly, pusillanimous silence on the issue.
    — Armond White, National Review, 5 Mar. 2025
Definition of pusillanimous
Adjective
  • There was her show, WandaVision, which then led to her villainous appearance in Multiverse of Madness.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Gyllenhaal, who plays the villainous Iago to Washington’s Othello, was joined by both his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and longtime partner, Cadieu.
    — Bailey Richards, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Definition of villainous
Adjective
  • Some unscrupulous persons will start to offer debt relief services or sell various sophisticated-sounding transactions to get rid of creditors.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Worse, the law is now being used by unscrupulous lawyers and doctors to stage phony accidents.
    — John Faso, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2025
Definition of unscrupulous
Adjective
  • Those who resort to violence to undermine our state and nation must be held accountable, and our state leaders must reinforce through decisive action that these cowardly attacks will not be tolerated.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2025
  • The cowardly capitulation of Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps are negative examples to be learned from.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025
Definition of cowardly
Adjective
  • In the new showbiz comedy The Studio, Bryan Cranston has a recurring role as Griffin Mill, the craven movie executive played by Tim Robbins in the 1992 film The Player.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2025
  • In any event Marshall, a craven idiot, is a raucous, vulgar sendup of the bedrock American principle of Manifest Destiny.
    — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of craven
Adjective
  • The notorious Sackler family, opioid pushers responsible for countless cases of addiction and death, can’t seem to settle their legal problems without turning to some kind of unprincipled maneuver.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Objective voters who watched the recent documentary about Lev Parnas, once a Trump ally, should fear a redux of a Cabinet running the government for an angry, unhinged, unprincipled man.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of unprincipled
Adjective
  • The closer analogy may actually be to Star Wars, a story about a boy named Luke Skywalker who is told that a dastardly villain called Darth Vader killed his father, Anakin Skywalker, only to discover that Vader is his father.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Back in Montana, every trip Jacob and company take to Bozeman and back is inevitably fraught with peril — if not instigated by dastardly rich guy Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton) and/or his henchman Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn), then by the pitiless nature of extreme weather.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of dastardly
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