coward
Example Sentences
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I am thankful for all the arcane references to pop culture I have at my disposal to frame the workings of a true coward like Hegseth.
From Salon
Last week, relatives of the victims shouted "murderer", "coward" and "get out" at Mazon as he arrived for a state memorial service for the victims in the Mediterranean city of Valencia.
From Barron's
Mr. Cruz nailed the point when he said Friday that “if you say nothing when someone tells you that Adolf Hitler was cool, you are a coward and complicit in evil.”
Her conclusion was startling, her tone defiant: “Put me wherever you want: misguided socialist, toothless humanist, naïve novelist, useful idiot, apologist, denier, ally, contrarian, collaborator, traitor, inexcusable coward.”
From Los Angeles Times
She branded the culprits "cowards" who had committed an act of "treachery".
From BBC
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