copout

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy chose the third option, much to the chagrin of Democrats who described it as a “complete copout.”

Deal called that a “copout” and noted the seriousness of the incident.

Horgan: I’m an agnostic, and I was bothered when in your book you called agnosticism a “copout.”

But it is a copout of the shabbiest sort to exploit this anxiety as a way of averting our gaze from the undiminished threat of North Korea.

Sorry, but blaming Sunday’s defeat on an official is an official copout.