copout
Example Sentences
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The ending of Kramer vs Kramer is a terrible copout, a Hollywood reversal of the gross injustice doled out by the court.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2019
There’s an emerging conventional wisdom that abandoning Facebook but staying on Instagram and Whatsapp is self-defeating, nonsensical, or a copout.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2018
In nearly every case, directing attention to mental health becomes a copout.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2016
“But if I can rely on that old social sciences copout, we need more evidence.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2012
Christian C. DeBaun Allston, Mass. Your selection of a computer is a copout.
From Time Magazine Archive
