coward
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Tyson Fury has labelled Anthony Joshua a "coward" as the pair face a tense wait to see whether their long-awaited all-British heavyweight bout can be agreed.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh called her “the biggest coward in the history of sports.”
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
In Jefferson’s mind Henry was a lazy lightweight, Hamilton a monarchist and a coward, Burr an insurrectionist and Marshall an implacable foe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“We wanted everyone to see what a complete and utter coward he is once you remove his powers, pretty much like every autocrat and strongman,” Kripke says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
And I hid from it like a yellow-bellied coward, keeping my mind on figures when it wasn’t wandering back to the musical note Anemone Cordimas put at the end of my name.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
"I think the other parties were cowards not to stand," said Mary Williams, who travelled to Clacton from Wales to support Farage.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Instead, like cowards, they cast around for weaker parties to victimize.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
Guadagnino’s driving interest is attacking academia as a rat’s nest of egomaniacs and cowards and insular, faux-radical thinking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Decades ago, people who buckled their seat belts were thought to be signaling that they were cowards, afraid of getting in a crash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
He tell me them boys was cowards, and maybe he could have them pointing they fingers one at the other.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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