copout

Example Sentences

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Still, if that’s really the reason they’re opting out of the song this time around—and not because, say, Chiwetel Ejiofor, who is voicing Scar, isn’t a singer—it’s an unfortunate copout.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2018

In nearly every case, directing attention to mental health becomes a copout.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2016

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

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2012

Of Masters's many virtues, the topmost is the way he refuses easy copout labels for a tricky person, his commitment to human variety and unfathomability.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2011

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

From Time Magazine Archive