0 (of an animal) having no spine; invertebrate. -- uten ryggrad
1 (of a person) having a weak character; easily dominated -- uten ryggrad, holdningsløs
spineless behaviour/behavior
They do not want spineless bureaucrats trying to protect their own backsides, and trying to ensure that innocent men go to prison.
They mumble away a lot of spineless and disconnected platitudes.
It is because of the spineless attitude that we have long pursued throughout an epoch which is now, happily, only a question of history.
Some have even turned into spineless jellies, wittering on about dropping this new approach.
Who were the spineless spenders over the past six weeks, miraculously, in view of the forthcoming or anticipated election?
This is in no sense a spineless surrender.
I have never known anything so cowardly and spineless in my life.
Thirdly, legislation stiffens the backbone of the relatively spineless.
