FAINT-HEARTED


Meaning of FAINT-HEARTED in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

If predators do not oblige, the pests are picked off and squashed - not a job for the faint-hearted !

Neither Baron Korf nor Iakov Rostovtsev owned serfs, but the one was faint-hearted and the other unimaginative.

None of this is for the faint-hearted .

Not a city for the lily-livered or faint-hearted .

Not that it is a post for the faint-hearted , even today.

Playing foreign markets is not for the faint-hearted .

The coastguard duties included patrolling paths at the top of high and sheer cliffs - not a job for the faint-hearted .

This is not an investment for the faint-hearted .

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