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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
cow·ard·ice
[
kou
-er-dis
]
/
ˈkaʊ
ər
dɪs
/
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Part of Speech:
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cowardice
Part of Speech:
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Example Sentences
It should be remembered that brutality is not manliness, but
cowardice
.
Given that cohort, presidential
cowardice
doesn't have ruinous effects.
Yet the government's efforts so far have been hampered as much by incompetence and political
cowardice
as a shortage of funds.
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It should be remembered that brutality is not manliness, but
cowardice
.
Given that cohort, presidential
cowardice
doesn't have ruinous effects.
Yet the government's efforts so far have been hampered as much by incompetence and political
cowardice
as a shortage of funds.
The neighborhood has been deeply affected by that horrific act of
cowardice
.
And so did large acts of
cowardice
and small acts of courage, often committed by unknown soldiers.
To the
cowardice
of the politicians in power and to the bravery of the participants involved.
It's either puffed up pride or academic
cowardice
that drives one side to try to say for certain that the other is wrong.
Curiously, this political
cowardice
has pushed negotiators in opposite directions.
The only ones who were right were those who opposed the war from the beginning for ideological reasons, not out of
cowardice
.
My observation is that bullies act from
cowardice
and insecurity, in all cases.
It's not an easy choice to make, and presenting it that way comes off as intellectual
cowardice
.
Baines begins to realize that it was his own
cowardice
that ultimately fed his son's crippling sense of worthlessness and.
Your attempt to chide others into silence by representing your own callousness and
cowardice
as graciousness is appalling.
We live under a political system of
cowardice
and deceit, regardless of the party.
Yet when it comes to supporting these programs, it seems that the political
cowardice
never ends.
Such attempts to spread the blame as widely as possible represent a kind of
cowardice
.
It is particularly evident in the
cowardice
of the protagonist.
Calling it an act of nature and hiding from it is
cowardice
.
After their only defeat of the season, there was even a suggestion of yellow, a hint of
cowardice
.
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