cowardice
Example Sentences
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I deemed this an act of maturity and self-preservation, definitely not cowardice.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
"Constantly assuming new faces, it has insinuated itself into the heart of our societies, into every crack, too often accompanied by that same pact of cowardice: to keep silent, to refuse to see."
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
Abdel-Fattah, a novelist, lawyer and academic, had been invited to the festival to discuss her latest novel Discipline – which she describes as "a cautionary tale about the cost of silence and cowardice".
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026
“Self-censorship” is what Mr. Hersh calls the flaw in so many news organizations to miss or ignore controversial stories, when what he really means is laziness and cowardice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
I couldn’t really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Vocabulary lists containing cowardice
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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