copout

Example Sentences

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There’s an emerging conventional wisdom that abandoning Facebook but staying on Instagram and Whatsapp is self-defeating, nonsensical, or a copout.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2018

That’s a copout which no fan worth their salt will accept.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2016

And that’s a huge copout, I think, in the sincerity push in art.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2012

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

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2012

Christian C. DeBaun Allston, Mass. Your selection of a computer is a copout.

From Time Magazine Archive