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McCarthy’s counterpart in the Senate has been only slightly less cowardly.

Even without a conviction the trial is a warning to anyone occupying high office in the future acts of high crimes and misdemeanors will not be glossed over because some are too cowardly to act.

Kayleigh McEnany’s cowardly exitPolitico’s revolt over Ben Shapiro guest-hosting Playbook went too far

A question I’ve been asking is whether these Republicans in Congress really believe what they’re saying, or whether they’re too cowardly or self-interested to do what’s right because they fear the political consequences.

From Vox

In Ghost of Tsushima, these tactics are considered cowardly, spineless, and dishonorable.

From Time

“It was cowardly, the way Chris and Guy went about this,” Ioffe said.

For them, the cowardly cynicism of the status quo will do just fine.

According to the historian John Saunders, he was a “weak, vain, incompetent and cowardly” leader.

Trying to put the onus onto someone else for your own decisions is really cowardly and kind of dishonest.

Nothing could be more cowardly than to gun down three unarmed innocents, including a 14-year-old boy.

If it were not for the cowardly fear of being thought timid, there would be more care used in such matters.

But when he saw there were but two of them he mentally cursed the four escorts who had so cowardly left him to his fate.

Isn't this free-booting spirit, now, better than leading a cowardly life of musty regularity?

None would have believed that the cowardly monster Fear was for ever feasting upon his heart.

But, there is a beardless youth, follow'd by a cowardly serving man, who presses hard to see you.

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On this page you'll find 67 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cowardly, such as: dastardly, afraid, anxious, apprehensive, backward, and base.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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