gutless

He was a yellow gutless worm.

You heard the president call him or her gutless.

Even bejewelled dowagers sound like scolding parents from 2018, with one calling a daughter gutless for failing to ask Qianlong for a promotion.

Don't listen to these gutless environmental sissies!

He called it " gutless" and launched into an extended criticism of the newspaper.

OK, you're whiney, you are, you're obsessive, you are insecure, you're, you're gutless, you know, you don't ever, you don't just sort of seize the day, you know.

Instead, evidently, your definition of accountable is to push the blame to your low-level employees who don't have the money for a fancy P.R. firm to defend themselves. It's gutless leadership.