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Despite the cowardly efforts of House Republicans to quash the findings of an Ethics Committee investigation into alleged sex crimes by Gaetz, the details kept getting leaked at a rapid pace: Reports of drug-fueled sex parties.

From Salon

“I took the easy path, the cowardly path, instead of doing the right thing,” Wang said, per The Associated Press.

From Salon

There, Dorothy met characters like the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man who joined her on her quest to see the Wizard of Oz so she could return home.

From BBC

“He was supposed to be in this courtroom but was too cowardly to do so,” Bernstein’s mother, Jeanne Pepper, told the court in her victim impact statement.

Bert Lahr, the cowardly Lion from “The Wizard of Oz,” starred in the 1956 American premiere of “Waiting for Godot” directed by Alan Schneider at Coconut Grove Playhouse, of all places.

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

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