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

It’s the only reasonable resolution to a conflict that is itself a copout.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2013

And that’s a huge copout, I think, in the sincerity push in art.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2012

“But if I can rely on that old social sciences copout, we need more evidence.”

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2012

His idea of freedom is a sort of emotional copout, a yearning not so much to find something as to be away from everything.

From Time Magazine Archive