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cowardliness



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Some of these institutions appeared to pay a price for their cowardliness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Instead, he corralled members of his staff for a photograph that, in its nightmarish awkwardness, revealed all the ineptitude, cowardliness and pettiness for which the whole charade was a grotesque cover.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020

The cowardliness of hiding behind a digital persona, and how we trash and deride people as well as how we relate as millennials.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2016

And Father Gabriel apparently undergoes his own personal crisis of cowardliness that is all tied up in his personal faith.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2014

No one was going to kill me just for saying that I wanted to sing, but I made it seem that way with my cowardliness.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers


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