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[ US /ˈkaʊɝdəs/ ]
[ UK /kˈa‍ʊədɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the trait of lacking courage

How To Use cowardice In A Sentence

  • Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • We have to make a definite move to cross over the boundary from cowardice to bravery.
  • 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
  • Due to a combination of cowardice, claustrophobia and Crohn's disease, I do not react well to being kettled at marches.
  • This brought Jeffrey an enormous sense of relief, then a feeling of disgust at his own cowardice. BLINDSIGHTED
  • One opposite to courage is cowardice, but another is rashness, foolhardiness.
  • He fought against dishonesty and corruption, opportunism and cowardice.
  • 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
  • Three hundred and six British servicemen were shot for offences against military law, including cowardice and desertion. Times, Sunday Times
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