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Sentence Examples There is more foolishness, more cowardly hearts, less courage, lack of appreciation and gratitude and less politeness. This is a typically cowardly Tory decision and just proves what we have said all along. But were concerned rather in keeping a whole skin by parlaying or by spilling cowardly tears to excite pity. They are dull, slow, sober and fearful characters with a weak pulse and a cowardly, slothful disposition. It is an horrific and extremely cowardly attack, which was totally unprovoked. He, conversely, was portrayed as a sneak for his cowardly yet disrespectful and defiant attitude towards the United States. The South African attacks were cowardly and unprovoked, and unworthy of a coach of his reputation. It is only a matter of time before somebody is killed in one of these cowardly attacks. The aristocracy tend to be cowardly and deceitful while the lowborn are noble savages. The bigger buffed man retreated cowardly to the other side of the gym while people stared at the commotion. This was a cowardly, savage and vicious attack on a man who was utterly helpless. All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. What concerns me was they contained a cowardly attack on a local councillor. Cameron stood on the porch, looking out into nowhere, feeling particularly cowardly and ineffectual. Bernard rides around the town in an ostentatious sports car and behaves like a cowardly bully. And the insurgents are no national liberation force, but rather chancers taking potshots at what they consider to be cowardly occupiers. Theyre all too cowardly to tell us a few harsh home truths about ourselves. A number of innocent lives have already been lost because of this cowardly and dastardly act, yet some people continue to play politics. They embarked upon one of the most unjust, immoral, and cowardly wars in history. The politically cowardly crowd believe that it is impolitic to be opposed to anything. Show More Sentences We're too cowardly to actually commit insurrection, and its impossibility becomes a grimly mocking reminder of our impotence. The independent counsel's unprecedented challenge to the presidency evoked the most feeble and cowardly response from these quarters. Such cowardly aggression will not be conclusively defeated there, or anywhere else. On at least three occasions the way you treated this girl was cowardly and contemptible. Their cowardly producers make a big deal out of courting our support and money, but they never deliver the goods. She was apparently on a vain quest to appeal to the man that he once was, trying to beg his soft, weak, cowardly side for mercy. A strange country where the military lost their power but none of the cowardly politicians had the courage to tell them. His neighbors are too small, too weak, too cowardly, or too troubled to take care of him themselves. Finally, irritated with myself for being so cowardly to turn away, I looked back into his eyes. The Prime Minister was too cowardly to visit the chamber while rebels wrecked his legislation. The more cowardly completely lost courage, but the more able and subtle did not think it necessary to give up. They think we are weak, cowardly people who will be intimidated and scared off by their mistreatment of our prisoners. Were the librarians who filed the complaint responsible and courageous, or cowardly and unprofessional? I also, typically, want to be a good person, to be courageous rather than cowardly, fair rather than unjust, and the like. This man has carried out a cowardly attack on an elderly woman who he knew would not be able to defend herself. My prayers and condolences are with those whose lives were tragically altered by the cowardly attacks. Ours is the greatest city in the world and we will not be divided by your cowardly attacks. This was a particularly cowardly attack, it's the nastiness of the injuries really. I would urge the man responsible for the cowardly attack to come forward and admit the crime and face the justice which awaits him. We are also certain that the police will apprehend the criminal who carried out this cowardly deed. Show More Sentences A cowardly attack on innocent civilians brought us an unprecedented level of cooperation and understanding around the world. After the case she said the men behind the cowardly attack would have known there were children in the house. Thankfully, this is also one of the few episodes where Ralph's cowardly cringe is tossed aside and he stands up for himself. Notwithstanding his currishness and the cowardly ferocity which comes out with the night, there is something definite about him. Prince John is the power-hungry, arrogant and cowardly brother of King Richard. And yes, incidentally, I do know that it's ignoble and cowardly and pusillanimous, but I'll swap you for a decent night's sleep. But this shows you the evilness of the perpetrators of this cowardly attack. The lopsided vote for Libya, including all those cowardly European abstentions, speaks volumes about the UN's character. It is an acknowledgment that you are weak-minded, cowardly, can be deceived and manipulated, and easily conned out of your money. I've never met him, but I'd love to inflict some of the woe he's put upon her onto his cowardly little mind. In this way accordingly he dissuaded the Lacedaemonians from showing themselves to be either too bold or cowardly. They seemed to have made a cowardly retreat and were most likely shivering in fear from the sound of her giant robot's earth-shaking footsteps. This is a cowardly and evil act that will be condemned by all right-thinking people. My personal solution was to run away from it all, and while that has made me happier, I also realize that it was selfish and cowardly. This cowardly decision was a blow to those already on strike and an attack on the unity of the city workers. The rest of those cowardly rats just stared at the ceiling and shuffled their papers. On the other hand, religion makes brave valiant men meek tame and cowardly such that they refuse to shed blood even for their motherland. Allen, of course, hotly denies this, arguing that his lusty, maladroit, cowardly, witty and nebbish persona is a comic archetype. They will intone that killing civilians is cowardly and warrants swift and merciless punishment. For example, he embodied animals that were weak, cowardly, false, and treacherous. Show More Sentences The cowardly writer of this perfidy had assumed the mantle of anonymity to cloak his misdoings! It meant that heels of Owen's type, the cowardly sneak, were wearing thin. The thing is, is not cowardly, but profoundly and detestably wicked. All such diabolic, yet cowardly actions must be severely condemned, censured and deterred with steeled resolve and equally resolute counteraction. His decade-long struggle to replace Blair as prime minister was never an open political contest, but a conniving, cowardly and petty bid for personal power. As it happens this war is being fought in a rather cowardly manner. There Jackson became a cowardly deserter sponging off the martial generosity of Uncle Sam, a man who betrayed his comrades and never paid his gambling debts. And the higher up you get in education the more cowardly you become. Who were the planners and perpetrators of this cowardly and heinous crime? Now his enemies have struck back at him in a lawless and cowardly fashion. Sure she knew he loved her, but he was too cowardly to admit it. Kay has left Benjamin before because he's weak and cowardly. He scoured the gaunt landscape as if his primordial authority was enough to plunge the lid of the monochrome building down to floor level to allow him a cowardly escape. I'd never felt so cowardly before in my life until that moment. I am squeamish, unenergetic and cowardly, and these qualities make it unlikely that I shall ever ride or run in any sort of hunt, or lift a rifle or shotgun. Even groups that we have admired are now in pell-mell cowardly retreat. He's a deceitful, cowardly, treacherous and thoroughly unlikable man. We are all courageous and cowardly, depending on the hour and the day. This appears to be a premeditated and cowardly racially motivated attack. A cowardly Jonah fled from God's commission to preach to the Ninevites. Show More Sentences The cowardly cyber-stalkers and other anonymous yellow-bellied hatemongers who lurk on the Internet, preying on decent folks, can jolly well lump it. But the free world will not bow to the rantings of a cowardly murderer. How cowardly could we be if, by overwhelming numbers, we had just elected a black man to lead the most powerful nation on Earth? When I was finally able to leave, after thanking the teacher like a cowardly wimp, I wondered whether the just-concluded event was a meeting of parents or a lecture on them. One of the less lovely animals in the world are the hyenas, thought of almost universally as a cowardly animal living off the kills of other predators, such as lions. They called the tactic cowardly but agreed that it had been effective. They are pathetic, gutless wonders who have the ability to analyse but are always cowardly when it comes to downgrading a company that deserves it. Evolutionary reform has proved impossible because it offends too many vested interests and our political leadership is too cowardly to take the brave decisions required. Trying to put the onus onto someone else for your own decisions is really cowardly and kind of dishonest. The cowardly cyber-stalkers and other anonymous yellow-bellied hate-mongers who lurk on the Internet, preying on decent folks, can jolly well lump it. Enormous Arlo is a cowardly and dim Apatosaurus who, after some reckless parenting, is alone in the wilderness. I love to follow them, but not so cowardly, as my life remaine thereby in subjection. Shape-shifting monsters Bogarts become mokos and Hagrid's cowardly black boarhound Fang is known asTora. For them, the cowardly cynicism of the status quo will do just fine. Men and their gods continually speak of heroic acceptance and cowardly avoidance of one's slated fate. Consequently, these 30,000 men flocked to Alaric's camp, clamouring to be led against their cowardly enemies. He also insisted that Jesus was the victim of his Roman executors and his cowardly Sadducean judges. While his colleagues went back to work at Holyrood, the cowardly thug did some early-morning DIY dressed in his jammies, goonie and baffies. Attracted to the idea of playing the unpleasant and somewhat cowardly Bennett, he lobbied successfully for the role in the 1953 film version. Pakistani squash player Mir Zaman Gul knocked Hill unconscious with his cowardly headbutt in a squash tournament. Show More Sentences The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face. In some versions, the Sheriff is a cowardly schemer while his assistant, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, is a more competent and determined physical threat to Robin. England betrayed Europe's interests to America in a cowardly and shameful way over the Panama Canal question, so as to be left in 'peace' by the Yankees. Listen, Fan. That cowardly, sickly little boy you fought for in the street, that day in Winnebago, showed every sign of growing up a cowardly, sickly man. The cowardly actions of young tearaways who are targeting buses in a warped form of vandalism will also certainly lead to serious injury, even deaths, in the long run. And after, in the quest of the Sangreal, cowardly and feloniously they slew Dinadan, the which was great damage, for he was a great bourder and a passing good knight. In the main these are street yobs, dimwits without a shred of idealism, a combination of street corner morons and nerdy, cowardly keyboard warriors. Examples from Classical Literature But it comes and goes, it is mixed with greeds and jealousies and cowardice and cowardly reservations. The breath was scarcely out of her body, when a flood of cowardly scurrilities was poured from the gutter press. He had trifled with her sensuousness, and to say that he was too young for blame was cowardly. Its first war-cry was stifled back by the brutal and cowardly hand of Destiny. He must have been disgusted that the Burgesses were too cowardly to vote down a resolution requesting the governor not to resign. A cowardly banner held out by the spoilsman that would sell his country for a mess of pottage. Rosalind was shirking a problem she dared not face from a cowardly conviction of its insolubility. His cowardly rages made them dread a shot in the back or poison in their coffee. Beauty Smith regained his feet and came toward him, sniffling and cowardly. It is unsportsmanlike, and that means that it is ungentlemanly, cowardly, and indecent. There seemed something about it unknightly, unkind and cowardly, almost base. The flight of the caracara is heavy and slow, and it is generally an inactive, tame, and cowardly bird. It would have been pusillanimous, cowardly, and unworthy the Governor of the State. The cowardly assault did not save the minister, who was too deeply compromised in the delation scandal. But in other cases, self-slaughter, to avoid trouble or the performance of inconvenient duty, is cowardly and detestable. I would not counsel you to be cowardly or egotistical, but he is right, you cannot deny it. Enceladus is, however, furious at what he considers a cowardly acceptance of their fate, and urges his brethren to resist. But I have concluded that such a motive for cloistered life is a cowardly one. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others. Well, of all the foolhardy, cowardly tricks, I believe that takes the premium! Show More Sentences But when the cowardly insulter spat in the face of the captive monarch Athos grasped his dagger. Kina cowardly fellers, them mush-rats, so I brung it myself. Before falling, I should make a hecatomb of my cowardly assassins. I think it cowardly of you to say that I am to be held responsible. He was as cowardly and wicked as Richard was brave and generous. A cowardly thug attacked a group of friends with CS spray yesterday hours after one of them knocked back in a club. I'll believe you are a coward, for yourself, but not a cowardly betrayer of your best friend. She will be sure to be finical, cowardly, or disagreeable in some way. It would be cowardly to shunt this wretched task off on somebody else. Should he be more cowardly, baser, weaker than the lowborn and wretched? He was too cowardly, too voluptuous to risk his tranquillity. In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. Sir, think you that the sons of the Achaeans are indeed as unwarlike and cowardly as you say they are? Bid them do the deed that you are too cowardly to perpetrate yourself! Because it would be an unsportsmanlike and a cowardly trick. At sight of a sharp knife and a cowardly Cockney the clinging of life to life overcomes all your fond foolishness. What better when feeling angry than to look at them variously as cowardly lions and tin men and pigtailed girls from Kansas? My noble master thee doth scorn, And all thy cowardly crew, Such silly imps unable are Bold Robin to subdue. But let that cowardly Asturian beware how he meets me in the mountains. This year, when the president gave his war whoop and the heat was on, a cowardly legislative branch surrendered its role as guardian of national defense. Show More Sentences It struck me as rather characteristic, that this man should prefer his countrymen being thought the worst of traitors, rather than unskilful or cowardly. As readers, we are voyeuristically and omnisciently privy to Glen's cowardly refusal to check on Nick after he hits head on a cow trough resulting in Nick's death. So it might be with some monarch of the forest that has vanquished his foes in fair fight, and then falls into some cowardly trap in the night-time. Tom had a remarkably smooth, soft voice, and a habitually respectful manner, that had given Legree an idea that he would be cowardly, and easily subdued. At least we did until last week, when some cowardly vandal ripped it down, and we assume, threw it away since the eyelets that held the flag were still there. You doubtlessly mean to say something, but hide your last word through fear, because you have not the resolution to utter it, and only have a cowardly impudence. For a minute a wild desire to run away possessed her, but that was cowardly, and the girls would laugh at her, so she resolved to stay and get out of the scrape as she could. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of cowardly? Words that rhyme with cowardly What is the adverb for cowardly? What is the adjective for cowardly? What is the noun for cowardly? Translations for cowardly Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words cowardliness cowardice Coward coward cowan cowal cowards cowardy cowbane cowbell cowbells cowberry 8-letter Words Starting With c co cow cowa cowar coward cowardl