copout

Example Sentences

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But it is a copout of the shabbiest sort to exploit this anxiety as a way of averting our gaze from the undiminished threat of North Korea.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2017

It’s the only reasonable resolution to a conflict that is itself a copout.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2013

And I knew she had strong feelings about open marriages, which she considered a copout out for couples looking for an end run around their marriage vows.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2013

“But if I can rely on that old social sciences copout, we need more evidence.”

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2012

His idea of freedom is a sort of emotional copout, a yearning not so much to find something as to be away from everything.

From Time Magazine Archive