cowardice
Example Sentences
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Jordy proclaimed his innocence in a video on social media, saying that the police had the "cowardice" to raid his home on his daughter's third birthday.
From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025
"The people who refused to condemn Candace's truly vicious attacks - and some of them are speaking here tonight - are guilty of cowardice," Shapiro said.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025
“The sense of security in our community has, again, been shattered by the act of cowardice and hate that is unacceptable,” David Englin, senior regional director of the ADL Los Angeles said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
The details of that incident couldn’t offer a clearer illustration of what cowardice playing at toughness looks like.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025
He girded himself and knew this would be a conflict that would extend the thresholds of his fear of his father and his cowardice before the plowman who had granted him life.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Vocabulary lists containing cowardice
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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"The American Crisis," Vocabulary from 1-2
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