copout
Example Sentences
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The ending of Kramer vs Kramer is a terrible copout, a Hollywood reversal of the gross injustice doled out by the court.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2019
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
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
Weinberger's other reason, that the commander in the field did not want the press along, was a glaring copout.
From Time Magazine Archive
