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cowardly English

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What does cowardly mean?

cowardly

lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then — P.B.Shelley

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Simple sentences

Although she calls all the others cowardly, she nonetheless lacks any courage herself.
It was cowardly, and I'm sorry.
The smaller and cowardly the dog, the angrier it barks.

Movie subtitles

Cowardly Curel!
The specially administrated zone of Nippon is a cowardly trap to lure us in!
You send me a cowardly text, and then you disappear?
Think I'll let you cowardly swine send me to the slaughter?
Cowardly and insubordinate.
You low-down, cowardly, nasty thing, you!
If you want her to grow up cowardly.
Cowardly? There isn't a cowardly bone in her body.
This filibuster is a cowardly attempt to turn your attention from the true facts.
Wouldnt you feel degraded to be seen in the company of a cowardly lion?
And the courage you promised Cowardly Lion?
To avenge the cowardly murder of his brother Jesse.
What you've done is the most cowardly thing I've heard of.
Pleasure presented itself to you, there you avoided it, trembling and cowardly.
I have a cowardly aversion to meeting reptiles socially till I've had at least one sherry and bitters.
To force me into a cowardly promise?
Wouldn't you feel degraded to be seen in the company of a cowardly lion?
Is it cowardly to know what's foolish?
Cowardly, yes!
Cowardly?
There isn't a cowardly bone in her body.
He sends you his brother, because he's too cowardly to come.
And the cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done this slaughter.
Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave.
He'll take you home and bring you back to my castle, should your daughters prove too cowardly to ride him in your place.
Cowardly what.
It was a cowardly thing to do.
How I hate myself for being so cowardly.
You'd fly away like a cowardly sparrow!
Cowardly bastard!

News and current affairs

Obama's recognition of America's limitations is not a sign of cowardly pessimism, but of realistic wisdom.
So, where Hiatt sees a press corps that was a little too cowardly about overseeing the Bush administration, Frankel sees a press corps where a sloppy and confusing process is nevertheless doing a reasonable job.
Of course, this did not stop North Korean propagandists from accusing the South Koreans of being cowardly lackeys of US imperialism.
Such a vacuum can be created only by government leaders who are too cowardly to devise and enforce their own defense policy.
Terrorism in this case is not just a cowardly act; it is also a reflection of the poisoned politics of US military occupation.
Indeed, contrary to what some commentators have written, it wasn't cowardly liberals who hounded Hirsi Ali out of the country because of her politically incorrect views about Islam.
Objections from European and Asian allies were brushed away as old-fashioned, unimaginative, cowardly reactions to the dawn of a new age of worldwide democracy, enforced by unassailable US military power.
Where EMU is concerned, nobody can accuse the member states of being cowardly or dilatory.
Tolerance towards Islam is cowardly appeasement in his eyes.
Cowardly compromise and political alibis - as so often in history - defeated a principled position.

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