How To Use Coward In A Sentence

Loman is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
When his friends called him a coward his resolve was only hardened. Times, Sunday Times
We have to make a definite move to cross over the boundary from cowardice to bravery.
Another translation of the Bible uses the word cowardly instead of fearful. How to Overcome Fear
Boos and hisses came from the crowds at the sight of No Name's cowardliness.

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For big men, they sure are acting cowardly. The Sun
The attorney for one of the accused denounced what he calls cowardly and anonymous leakers at the Pentagon. CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2006
Again, here at CENTCOM, for the past few days they have been criticizing Iraqi military for what they term cowardice on the battlefield. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003
To me he is false, a bluffer, a hypocrite, a sectarian, a coward and an opportunist.
Greg, Could you post a list of the Democrat-cowards who were frighted off by the Decider's "you are helping terrorists" crap and voted for that legislation so that they could join the Iraqi legislature on vacation? Poll: Bush Approval Soars All The Way Up To 36%
Due to a combination of cowardice, claustrophobia and Crohn's disease, I do not react well to being kettled at marches.
Our cowardly lion of a bureaucracy throws issue after issue into the long grass when confronted by the mice that roar. Times, Sunday Times
Personal valets glide silently past, afternoon tea is served at exorbitant prices, and trinkets of the previous visitors are left in some of the rooms - Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Noël Coward.
This brought Jeffrey an enormous sense of relief, then a feeling of disgust at his own cowardice. BLINDSIGHTED
And what I've learned is not to trust that cowardly little squit, Mundungus. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
Being a big coward myself, I think I'd feign an injury rather than be on a team that has to face this Argentinan side.
A timid or cowardly person would never take that leap.
One opposite to courage is cowardice, but another is rashness, foolhardiness.
What happened here was an unprovoked and cowardly attack,' he said. Times, Sunday Times
He fought against dishonesty and corruption, opportunism and cowardice.
But he insists on painting a picture with the same old hackneyed images and rancid cliches about salt-of-the-earth heartlanders and morally vacant or cowardly coastal cosmopolitans.
The bigger buffed man retreated cowardly to the other side of the gym while people stared at the commotion.
Warrior stroke Jingtao hack flow without sinking, coward in be in smooth water will drown.
Wall is a tremendously challenging artist, as his stuff essentially mocks both the Cartier-Bresson 'Decisive Moment' as self-glorifying bushwa, and the Modernist painters' photography-induced flight from Realism as cowardice. Kenneth Hite's Journal
I understand their haste but future generations may not be as sympathetic to our cowardice and laziness. Times, Sunday Times
A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
To declare war against the small island state looks like the action of a cowardly nation.
taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'
What about the possibility that we somehow have raised a generation of moral cowards?
Cowards may die many times before their death.
They called the tactic cowardly but agreed that it had been effective.
She could recall the total disgust that she had felt towards such a cowardly weakling who would cry before his peers; it was revolting.
He is no mere traitor or felon knight, much less a coward, from the first; but at that first shows a mixture of good and bad qualities in which the "dram of eale" does its usual office. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
If someone is said to have a "yellow streak, " that person is considered a coward.
The word 'coward' is a strong one, but the reality is that because we have such wildly different perspectives on why racial disparities exist, and because they continue to exist long after explicit racism has been outlawed, discussion of racial issues requires a high degree of tolerance for conflict, both intellectual and emotional. Guest Post:: It Takes a Nation of Cowards to Prove Eric Holder Right
British playwright Noel Coward was natty and flamboyant, a born performer.
Three hundred and six British servicemen were shot for offences against military law, including cowardice and desertion. Times, Sunday Times
The teachers were viewed as informers, or at best cowards and hypocrites.
Police branded the attack 'disgusting and cowardly'. The Sun
Guilty consciences always make people [men] cowards.
You are a coward and a bully. Times, Sunday Times
The Romans even figured out how to deter cowardice that causes the death of others with the technique called decimation: If a legion lost a battle and there was suspicion of cowardice, 10 percent of the soldiers and commanders - usually chosen at random - were put to death. NYT > Home Page
You are the greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are your greatest friend.
You are just a goddamned coward, you yellow son-of-a-bitch.
Cowards may die many times before their death.
He was becoming a mollycoddle and a coward, she said, and it was time he stood on his own feet. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
Methinks the anonymous disruptor is trying to distract us from his/her cowardice. Protesters Demand UVa Contractors Living Wage at cvillenews.com
Indeed it does, and you don't have to be an anarchist to smile wickedly as Coward's characters poke bruising fun at all the censorious prigs, both moral and political, who talk a better game than they play. When Coward's Amanda Turns Cougar
After all this is a troll, a cowardly troll, he probably agrees with putting Japanese/Americans in internment camps. Think Progress » Obama: Gitmo Has ‘Been Subject To A Lot Of…Pretty Rank Politics’
A valiant man’s look is more than a coward’s sword.
A more cowardly attack is barely conceivable. The Sun
It was a cowardly attack by a strong man on a distinctly weaker woman. The Sun
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Abraham Lincoln
Is it cowardice, the lack of moral backbone to tell the truth whatever the cost?
His decade-long struggle to replace Blair as prime minister was never an open political contest, but a conniving, cowardly and petty bid for personal power.
I only wish I had the nerve to try some of the more hair-raising pastimes enjoyed by some of our older citizens, but am far too much of a coward and layabout!
But, when officers confronted Parker, he proved to be a craven coward who literally pulsed with guilt.
The only talk in the ward was of the movement of troops, of victories and heroism here, of defeat and scabrous cowardly enemies there. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
I think I am a coward, a recreant and a fool. Even now I don't know how to react when he shows me his eyes and grin.
This small journey seems quite a formidable expedition to me, and that sort of cowardly feeling of incapacity and disinclination for the smallest effort or unusual exertion is the growth of a two years 'habit over that of thirty preceding ones, and is a greater sign of age than white hairs, wrinkles, or loss of teeth. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
a solitary instance of cowardice
I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation. Wuthering Heights
Sea of Cowards," the band's sludgier, yowlier follow-up, showcases the interplay between White and Mosshart to a greater advantage than "Horehound" did. Album review: The Dead Weather, "Sea of Cowards"
Above all, Byrd has decried the cowardice of Congress in its acceptance of the wholesale repudiation of the US Constitution.
As an Arab American, I can empathize with Shirley Sherrod, In the midst of this crisis, I wrote a number of short pieces on a few websites charging that she had been "lynched" and was a victim of a hysterical mob spurred on by lies and cowards in authority who, out of fear or political calculation, had sacrificed her to a mob refusing her right to a fair hearing. James Zogby: I Understand Shirley Sherrod
A valiant man’s look is more than a coward’s sword.
They were barely able to drag themselves back to camp like the pathetic weaklings and cowards they are.
A counterargument would stress that the greatest learning is derived from the inimitable, silence betrays cowardice, disaffiliation and indie culture give the lie to the unavoidability of affiliation, the literary field exists in many sites other than the academy, self-victimization is the reigning philosophy, program writers are more self-commodifying than the disaffiliated, the system purges internal feedback from dissenters, and the end of excellence is well in sight. Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider
A coward considers difficulties as a heavy burden on his back,but a valiant fighter turns difficulties into a stepping-stone for his advance.
Medieval people had a horror of treachery and cowardice; the two were often felt to go hand in hand.
The average Michigander has far more courage than cowards like Romney and Hoekstra. hongli Romney backs Hoekstra in Michigan
He is a coward by his own admission.
Know that they have killed my son in the most cowardly way. Times, Sunday Times
Hamlet says, this is what makes cowards of us all.
To declare war against the small island state looks like the action of a cowardly nation.
The implications of political apathy and cowardice are all the more significant for these revealing admissions.
Ofelia, who was used to being the boss all the time, would now have to obey every word that was uttered from Stolly - a weak, spineless, cowardly man in her mind.
The rest of those cowardly rats just stared at the ceiling and shuffled their papers.
Officials with UNAMID, the joint African Union and United Nations peacekeeping mission, strongly condemned what they called cowardly acts of violence against the peacekeepers. Latest News - UPI.com
A coward considers difficulties as a heavy burden on his back,but a valiant fighter turns difficulties into a stepping-stone for his advance.
Only a coward gives in to his fate.
Peter Bowles as Judith's novelist husband best catches the acidulous tone of Coward's comedy of bad manners.
When his friends called him a coward his resolve was only hardened. Times, Sunday Times
Our cowardly lion of a bureaucracy throws issue after issue into the long grass when confronted by the mice that roar. Times, Sunday Times
They openly berated and chastised any hint of cowardice in their sons.
Boy, the ridiculous right is like a spoiled four year old: never happy, refusing to agree with anything because its far more easy to be a coward and criticize from the sidelines. Obama: Bailout for Main Street
Cowardly people will only come to a standstill, recklessly person can lead to Shaoshen, only the real brave man to carry the world before one.
He says infantry that didn't keep moving and attacking would be accused of cowardice or dereliction of duty.
She squared her jaw and turned, feeling foolishly coward.
Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honorable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts! Mehmet Murat ildan
The brave and the wise can both pity and excuse,when cowards and fools shew no mercy.
My prayers and condolences are with those whose lives were tragically altered by the cowardly attacks.
They were barely able to drag themselves back to camp like the pathetic weaklings and cowards they are.
The brave and the wise can both pity and excuse,when cowards and fools shew no mercy.
They seemed to have made a cowardly retreat and were most likely shivering in fear from the sound of her giant robot's earth-shaking footsteps.
Far from being a national icon, Bonaparte is a weakling, a coward, a sluggard, and an ignoramus.
They will do what they do because just under the gauzy veil of their fulminations they know that to deal in matters of truth would require effort and worse, an exposure of just how weak and cowardly they actually are. Like Hell Needs A Heat Wave...
Cowards die often [many times] before their deaths.
a hare: his dishonesty appears in leaving his friend here in necessity and denying him; and for his cowardship, ask Fabian. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
Their cowardly producers make a big deal out of courting our support and money, but they never deliver the goods.
If you use it then you will likely to be perceived as brave or the opposite of coward or frail.
You have taken all that away from him in a brutal, cowardly and totally unjustified attack. Times, Sunday Times
It is disgraceful act as a man in republican party show such a coward and hypocritic act .. Sanford, 'humbled and broken,' makes vow to state
And the cowards and wimps don't do a single thing about it.
The ranks of conservatives are overwhelmingly a bunch of mouthy chickenhawk cowards; in particular, conservative politicians.
Convocation preferred the blight of the coward Science to the cultivation of all that was beautiful, distinguished, humane, and brave; and they reaped as they had sown, they kept the dog smotherer and lost the radiant spirit and uplifting eloquence of the inspired seer. Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
You can't call mow a coward now because I'm going to prison. CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2006
Instead we are forced, through the cowardly acts of our superiors, to hide in shame. Times, Sunday Times
Guilty consciences always make people [men] cowards.
Thanks for exposing this ambusher for the coward he is (does this sound familiar vis a vis other right-wingers?). Think Progress » Fox News ambusher Griff Jenkins hypocritically cowers from interview: ‘Call the media relations people.’
I am now encountering what my dead mother called the forge fire of life, and I will not shun it like a coward. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
They goaded him into entering the pitch dark basement by saying he was a coward.
Director Bob Baker seems to have an innate understanding of the Coward paradox, that wistful vitriol.
He said he used the phrase as a figure of speech, and did not mean to imply she was a coward.
Medieval people had a horror of treachery and cowardice; the two were often felt to go hand in hand.
The criminals who prey on the elderly are the lowest of the low - contemptible cowards whose targets are the frail and solitary.
He himself chose not to run for re-election to the party in 1907, and he expressed the concern that ‘some of its leaders are becoming cowardly and truckling to priests and politicians.’
There is no reason for this other than craven cowardice in the face of power.
Cowardly people will only come to a standstill, recklessly person can lead to Shaoshen, only the real brave man to carry the world before one.
On this latter point the earl of Shelburne rcmonftrated veiy warmly with his colleagues, urging in forciUe language the fupinenefs, the cowardice, the tij-eachery, the befotted ftupidity of permitting Lfiwis to rob the Corficans of their ina« lienable rights, and to overturn the balance of power by annexing to his dominions an ifland that would give him coniiderable in - fluence in the affiurs of Italy, and a dangerous extenfion of con - troul over the trade of the Mediterranean. Memoirs of the right honourable edmund burke
You are a coward. Hi , Woodpecker, would you like to a picnic with me?
Only Shakspeare and Scott could have given us medicines to make us like this cowardly, conceited “jimp honest” fellow, Andrew Rob Roy
I should have your throat cut for cowardice you miserable wretch!
The great thing about academics is that they are typically spineless cowards who really do respond to sufficient pressure.
It is the novelist's innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself. Where's the show?
He resigns his commission and is branded a coward.
You can accuse me of cowardice, but I still wouldn't volunteer to fight in a war.
It struck me as a cowardly way to behave. Times, Sunday Times
This was a particularly brutal and cowardly attack.
`Besides," she said brightly, `how can you expect to play Noel Coward if you've never had Sunday lunch in an English country house? AN OLDER WOMAN
And Londoners will not be divided by this cowardly attack.
Workers then come to exhibit some of the more traditional virtues such as generosity and trustfulness, and avoid some of the more traditional vices such as cowardice, stinginess, and self-indulgence.
These Cheney fans are morons in more than one way, they use the theme "draft Cheney 2012" but these idiots fail to realize that Cheney was deferred from active duty in 'more than one draft order' which shows his cowardliness. ohmygod New group tries to convince Cheney to run in 2012
Or: he'd take one look at the police, realize the jig was up and I was seriously not someone worth messing with, and he'd clam up, recede into his cowardice, and all-too-compliantly-and-deferentially slink out the door. A Bite-Sized Piece
A pardon need not imply that a soldier did not desert, or show cowardice, or disobey orders.
George W. Bush strongly condemning what he called the cowardly assassination of Benazir Bhutto. CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2007
I try and try to become strong, but in the end, I am still the same coward I have always been.
Misguided craven cowards have debased the nobleness of mankind.
You are the greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are your greatest friend.
Necessity and oportunity may make a coward valient.
Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honorable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts! Mehmet Murat ildan
Surely everyone must have been able to hear the erratic pounding of her coward heart.
This man has carried out a cowardly attack on an elderly woman who he knew would not be able to defend herself.
In a single act of cowardice and betrayal, if not treason, the US congress has 'scuttled' the Articles of Impeachment drawn up and carefully researched by Dennis Kucinich. Liberty Betrayed
He offered to replace cash cowardly thugs stole from the 82-year-old. The Sun
The only think that's stopping me is fear, cowardice, a reluctance to take risks and look dumb.
The independent counsel's unprecedented challenge to the presidency evoked the most feeble and cowardly response from these quarters.
He did not deserve to have it taken from him in a cowardly attack. The Sun
He described the detention without trial of political opponents as a cowardly act.
Some have dismissed this as cowardice by the court, but its not really.
It seeks pardons only for those killed for desertion and cowardice.
This should end all of the talk from the Repuppetcans talkin about how the POTUS is a coward, for the real mark of a coward is their inability to be able to speak in front of a group of people that they dont agree with. Think Progress » Republicans dismayed by Obama’s strong performance, say it was a ‘mistake’ to let cameras roll.
Sarah Palin acted like a bully during the campaign and now she is acting like a coward. Palin hits back at 'malicious' photo
That's completely wrong, a feeble excuse for laziness or cowardice. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the issues faced in my time have been challenging, not least the current funding crisis and in their efforts to solve this and indeed whatever faces them from hereon in, I wish Paul, Nic [Coward, chief executive] and the team well. Talking Horses
They are cowardly yobbos who must be stopped now.
Police branded the attack 'disgusting and cowardly'. The Sun
And truely this rage of loue was the only meane to dulcorate and make swete the bitter gal of griefe whiche those twoo louers felte, defatigated almoste with tedious trauaile, iudging their wearinesse a pastime and pleasure, being guided by that vnconstante captaine, whiche maketh dolts and fooles wyse men, emboldeneth the weake hearted and cowardes, fortifieth the feeble, and to be shorte, vntieth the pursses and bagges of couetous Carles and miserable Misers. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Abraham Lincoln
Shakespeare is not pointing out, in 'The knave turns fool that runs away,' that the wise knave who runs away is really a 'fool with a circumbendibus, '' moral miscalculator as well as moral coward. ' Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
You're a taxpayer-funded bludger, coward, tyrant-appeaser and liar.
By all reports straight and happily partnered with a female politician, Rickman nonetheless has the kind of suave, queeny hauteur any Noel Coward manque would kill for.
Pilotshark says: pezmiztix says: and the fact that chinese were brutalized and raped by the japan. by the japan? japan is a country, remember us dropping two atomic bombs on the japan, how do you thing the china felt about that. you know you are not even smart enough to be ignorant, you unpatriotic coward. Think Progress » Right-wing Saudi dynasty endorses right-wing Fox News dynasty.
Not yet aware of this truth, nor, indeed, in the least suspecting Gawtrey of worse offences than those of a charlatanic and equivocal profession, the young man mused over his protector's cowardice in disdain and wonder: till, wearied with conjectures, distrust, and shame at his own strange position of obligation to one whom he could not respect, he fell asleep. Night and Morning, Complete
This cowardly attack ended the life of ‘a loving, kind and gentle man’.
Why reject him, in a cowardly way? Times, Sunday Times
The Confederates won the battle and we acted like cowards!
A delightful surprise is Waiting in the Wings, Coward's fiftieth play, an undeserved flop in 1960 and a greatly deserving revival now.
Greeks and Romans? were these cowards? and yet, did you ever hear of this butchery, which we call duelling, among them? Amelia — Volume 3
Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies. THE KANAKA SURF
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
Allen, of course, hotly denies this, arguing that his lusty, maladroit, cowardly, witty and nebbish persona is a comic archetype.
Studies have shown that people who commit such cowardly sickening acts against innocent defenceless animals move on to attack bigger things, such as people. The Sun
It is an act of moral cowardice for a society to neglect its poor.
In reality they are spineless cowards. Times, Sunday Times
I prefer the term necrotic pustular basket of cowards, cheats, thieves, swindlers, con-artists, fuckwits lying bastards, child abusers and war criminals. WordPress.com News
Obama is an in experienced coward and a fool, 143 days as congressman .. First on the Ticker: Palin will not run for re-election
He who blames one to his face is a hero, but he who backbites is a coward.
And "selfless" - so did they wish themselves with good reason, all those world-weary cowards and cross-spiders! Thus Spake Zarathustra
Not wanting to admit that an innocent man might have been executed is the ultimate cowardice!! Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 10/05/09
You realize of course that from here on in the same flaccids you excoriate will now call you a liar as they lie about you, call you a coward as they hide behind their ridiculous pseudonyms, and traduce you as a neocon, a Zionist, a warmonger and an idiot? Archive 2009-03-01
The hyaena is a very cowardly animal, but frequently approaches persons lying asleep, and makes an ugly gash on the face. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
We are all courageous and cowardly, depending on the hour and the day.
I am not a sneakish fellow, nor a coward; only -- it's a pity -- I lack audacity. Botchan (Master Darling)
Due to my not being enraged or scared of these cowards, there was no fear, and I believe they sensed that.
He's in love with her but is too much of a coward to leave Vanessa, who supports him financially.
Given these attitudes, they are prone to a number of vices, including lack of generosity, cowardice, and intemperance.
Lady Macbeth says: Wouldst thou have that Which thou call the ornery of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, Kill Ten Rats
He became very angry with the President, said that that officer had a cowardly fear of Spain and Great Britain, and declared that he would go to Washington to "thrash" the President. Stories Of Georgia
By the way, this is totally a relationship question because I'm attracted to athletic, outdoorsy guys, but I'm a physical coward.
A cowardly Jonah fled from God's commission to preach to the Ninevites.
He described the detention without trial of political opponents as a cowardly act.
His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward.
Large number will still coward at the sound of fish eggs but will eat "caviar" - which also happens to be prepared without heat. Archive 2007-03-01
‘Our power is wielded by weaklings and cowards, and our honour is false in all its points’.
a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman
The lopsided vote for Libya, including all those cowardly European abstentions, speaks volumes about the UN's character.
Cowards die often [many times] before their deaths.
To declare war against the small island state looks like the action of a cowardly nation.
The whole episode smacks of expediency and cowardice.

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