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cowardice

[kou-er-dis] / ˈkaʊ ər dɪs /


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Paty's sister Mickaelle said in a statement through lawyer Louis Cailliez that her brother would still be alive without a "fatal association of small cowardices, big lies".

From Reuters • Nov. 27, 2023

They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Thus between two cowardices, one of which I must choose, stood I, like the ass of Buridan.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John

How many of us mourn over our past follies and cowardices, bitterly regretting the wasted moment or the lost opportunity?

From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley

All the things that go on inside you, the cruel, dreadful things; the cowardices and treacheries.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May




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