0 Someone who is fainthearted is not confident or brave and dislikes taking unnecessary risks: --
He deals with subjects more fainthearted filmmakers would stay away from.
We are the custodians of liberty in this country, and we should not be fainthearted or lacking in the courage to get up and say so.
Such fainthearted defeatism should not be applied to the protection of children, who need and deserve all the protection that we, as legislators, can give them.
I feel that they would have thought it pretty fainthearted to boggle at this sort of sum of £3 per head per year, or at writing off £18,000 million in 36 years.
Milk-and-water sanctions are just a waste of time and are likely to result in hard words, such as "pusillanimity", being addressed to those who are fainthearted in imposing them.
The public are not always fainthearted.
Therefore, in a sense, the industry is a sitting duck for the fainthearted, for the politically expedient and for the vested interest.
The public will not be misled by any fainthearted proposals that it should be left to landlords to make their own choices.
Fainthearted attempts are being made to mitigate this scandal.