faint-hearted

In the past, faint-hearted politicians behaved in mostly sensible ways because they were afraid to act recklessly.

Emergency rooms are full of the faint, the fainting, and the faint-hearted.

Here is the very dog come out to encourage his faint-hearted master.

Here be my spoils, great ones; but how faint-hearted are your southern trout!

Back with the faint-hearted, on with the brave, and down with the traitor!

The first step they took was to depose their faint-hearted Viceroy and set up Liniers in his place.

The wise rival is he who knows how to seize upon the psychological moment and urge his suit in no faint-hearted manner.