How to Use gutless in a Sentence

gutless

adjective
  • But this seems a lot more gutless than ruthless.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 20 May 2026
  • Too bad the judges who make that call won’t be able to send these gutless folks home with them.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 21 July 2023
  • As a result, politicians have been too gutless to tax their biggest donors.
    — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2026
  • When the great test of his life arrived, the warrior-aesthete proved gutless.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The waves at Inch were ideal for first-timers, but too gutless and small for our purposes.
    — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The people who control things, plus those in the media who enable them, are greedy, gutless or brain dead.
    — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • In a year of gutless moves by major media companies, this may be the most gutless.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Still, that’s not always possible, and so the gutless method is worth learning for a few reasons.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Keane called out the Red Wings as gutless for waiting for a home game to exact revenge.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 28 May 2026
  • Even more amazing, though, is how quickly the gutless animals grow back their organs.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2015
  • The former makes the car feel utterly gutless, the latter has the petrol engine revving too hard and often.
    — Alun Taylor, Ars Technica, 20 June 2017
  • Why would anyone devote her life to a brainless, spineless, gutless group of parasites?
    — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
  • And all the while, our gutless politicians watch from the sidelines so as to not interfere and risk angering their party.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The gutless, undisciplined first quarter shoved the Cavs into a 23-point hole and forced them to fight back the rest of the night.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Some Republicans are too gutless to follow their consciences.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019
  • But, unlike many of the mindless, gutless science-y blockbusters that dominate the studio system, these sci-fi flicks will lodge in your brain.
    — Jason Silverman, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2006
  • The worst was the seemingly gutless reaction from teammates as their quarterback lay helmetless and helpless.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 25 Oct. 2020
  • But to almost take a man’s life, especially in front of one’s kids, that wasn’t resisting, in his back at point-blank range, is a heartless and gutless situation.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • But to almost take a guy's life, especially in front of one's kids, that wasn't resisting, in his back at point-blank range, is a heartless and gutless situation.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2020
  • But to almost take a guy's life, especially in front of one's kids, that wasn't resisting, in his back at point-blank range, is a heartless and gutless situation.
    — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Just gutless people trying to continue to victimize Gloria’s siblings and children.
    — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 3 May 2023
  • The result leaves nearly every performer fumbling for traction in Serkis and Stoller’s muddy-yet-gutless cinematic sty.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The Defendant’s gutless decisions deprived the family of a proper burial.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • And the really jaw-dropping part of AMLO’s gutless abdication?
    — Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The word might describe any number of handsome young men who carelessly rip through one woman’s heart after another, never actively deciding to create havoc but doing so anyway, out of gutless passivity.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The Legislature must say no to Hochul’s gutless proposal that will impose a financial burden on our small businesses while doing nothing to improve the habitability of our city.
    — Alex Matthiessen, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
  • Trump and the gutless GOP Congress may be leading America into World War III.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The gutless administrators and butt-kissing Boards will retire and otherwise move on, never accepting responsibility for their failures.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The series unfolds against a larger maelstrom of gutless mismanagement and abdication of responsibility on the federal, state and city levels in the wake of Katrina.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Now, after another preventable national tragedy, too many Republicans are similarly mealy-mouthed, too gutless to even name the problems facing America (white supremacy, guns), let alone try to solve them.
    — Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 27 Feb. 2018

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