gumptionless
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gumptionless (comparative more gumptionless, superlative most gumptionless)
- Lacking gumption.
- 1901, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Cinderella:
- But I am no gumptionless Eve, that he should beguile me.
- 1924, James Agate, The Contemporary Theatre:
- No actress that I know can so mingle dewy pathos and the salt of sanity: yet she must forego these in favour of gumptionless Dianas.
- 1989, Howard Lewis Russell, Iced Tea and Ignorance:
- You're the most gumptionless person on earth.