cowardice
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈkaʊərdɪs/
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cobardía
- His constant avoidance of challenges revealed his cowardice to the entire team.
- cowardice and incompetence
- moral cowardice
- call it cowardice
But you know, I, I've always said that cowardice is catching.
- But you know, I, I've always said that cowardice is catching.
- You know, because the Christian faith teaches that cowardice is sinful.
- The cowardice of the intellectual is not the cowardice of the person who's chronically afraid.
- The opposite of courage is not like cowardice, it's conformity.
- So he's imputing cowardice to Achilles.
- You, you, you have to get beyond the epidemic of cowardice.
- You know when you see it, when you see cowardice, it's the most disgusting thing you can see.
- And so there are constraints on their ability to oppose the regime based upon what we might call cowardice or other people might call realism.
- I'm either motivated by cowardice, covetousness, insecurity, indolence, greed, or malice.
- He said, how can a president have that sort of moral cowardice and fear the arts at the the start of a war when he's in office?
- Just as cowardice is a mortal sin in the individual, it is a mortal sin at the population level.
- I think it's just cowardice, fear.
Examples
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The charge is cowardice in the face of the enemy.
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Failure to date reflects the cowardice of Arab leadership unwilling to press the fight.
Academic text (2007) -
All right, Thomas, make me understand because I tell you now, to me this looks like cowardice.
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Cowardice is one thing I guess we can never forgive ourselves.
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Instead, they both demonstrate pure cowardice.
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I am relieving you of command on the basis of cowardice in the face of a national emergency.
Fiction book (1995) -
And they rejected the offer, which is cowardice and in my opinion anyway, and in the very least kind of shows what they think of their own customers.
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The first sign of treachery or cowardice, you'll be killed.
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Those who refuse to commit are given a white feather, a symbol of cowardice and treachery.
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It wasn't a simple act of cowardice.
Synonyms
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5.8
Feeling too shy or afraid to try new things
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4.5
Being easily frightened and nervous in new or dangerous situations
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6.6
Lack of courage when facing danger or difficulty
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9.9
Being too afraid to do what is needed
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4.9
Feeling afraid and not confident in new or unknown situations
A lack of courage that makes a person afraid to act
A complete lack of courage that makes someone act shamefully
Being very cowardly in a shameful way
A shameful fear that makes a person avoid danger and refuse to stand up for others
A tendency to be easily scared or nervous
Antonyms
How Brave
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cowardice comes from an old word for 'tail' (cauda), because people who ran away were said to 'turn their tail' like an animal. So, cowardice means 'lack of courage', because it gives the picture of someone running away instead of facing danger.