courageous vs cowardly
courageous
Definitions
adjective
- possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching
Examples
Rob's strengths lay in absorbing the pressure and criticism, and in doing this well he more than proved himself courageous, gutsy and tough.
A fearless person could not be courageous, because courage is all about the mind dominating fear.
The word has reasserted the romantic, courageous quality that the poet Keats, in “Endymion,” gave it: “Adventuresome, I send/My herald thought into a wilderness.”
cowardly
Definitions
adjective
- lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
Examples
Another translation of the Bible uses the word cowardly instead of fearful.
For big men, they sure are acting cowardly.
The attorney for one of the accused denounced what he calls cowardly and anonymous leakers at the Pentagon.
