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    cowardly


    1. ‘Did you see these men at all?’ he asked, his ignoring of my cowardly confession firming up my wilting backbone


    2. Blackmailing- It is among the greater acts of the cowardly to blackmail


    3. It disgusted him that they had sent Chabbishid out to talk to him, it was cowardly


    4. He was a cowardly nobody; a living joke


    5. 8But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually


    6. But, before he found the courage to rejoin the others, the group of survivors had already begun their hasty retreat, leaving the cowardly Tetloan behind


    7. "I shared her nest," he said, naturally, not with the cowardly quiver of the Alan of old


    8. They were rowdy and noisy and waving a lot of money about and when I looked at them I thought what a bunch of cowardly shits I had lost a lot of good mates so that these scavengers could have a cushy war


    9. “What went on out there we heard a god awful scream and then all hell let loose?” I was going to tell him it was that cowardly bastard Smith when he continued saying


    10. And further, his cowardly fleeing into the countryside of England every night during the WWII bombing of England (the Blitz)

    11. McCarthy could have taken lessons from today"s college campuses, where speakers not approved (read: conservatives) by the radical minority are shouted down, and an abundance of speech codes keeps the moderate students paralyzed, as they watch student newspapers which fail to toe the party line being stolen from the newsstands and sometimes burned on the spot, with a consequent lack of response, yea, sometimes even applause, from the cowardly administrations


    12. A disease that only the hopelessly cowardly seem to be afflicted with


    13. It was cowardly and cruel to blame others, to hate them, to expect them to look out for his interests instead of their own


    14. Cowardly the poked and prodded the corpses with their swords, joking as they retrieved their weapons


    15. Vile wretches, murderers, capable of any deed of cowardly cunning


    16. Vandewater of the 71st, led to an infamous charge, made by certain cowardly volunteers, that the two chaplains had robbed dead bodies as they lay on the field


    17. Just when it seemed that Rhodesia won the war the SAP COIN Units were withdrawn as part of a doomed political game called "détente" meaning arse crawling to the rest of Africa at the Rhodesians expense! The way the Nationalists treated Rhodesia can only be described as shameful and cowardly


    18. Well too bad, I looked how I felt and by now everyone would have heard about Boyd’s cowardly departure anyway and I just wasn’t in the mood for the sympathetic looks and comments that were inevitably going to come my way


    19. That is the cowardly way out


    20. It was more than desperate; it was likely suicidal, but what else was there? Did Beth have the courage and willingness to kill? Could Raul be trusted? Had he changed, becoming his cousin again, or was he still a mindless puppet that would order rockets fired upon his own family? Maybe he came to steal the cocaine, or probably something more cowardly, like fetch him back to Nicaragua to stand trial for the La Palma bombing, but he had no choice other than to trust him

    21. All he could think of was to dive into trail-side underbrush, hoping that they hadn’t seen him, and lay there quivering in cowardly fright, instead of trying to avenge this dastardly deed


    22. When I look at him, I don’t see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and I don’t hear the excuses he gave afterward


    23. atrocity, oblivious to the hidden and cowardly smirk of Shinra,


    24. Martin thought Carson was cowardly and would delegate anything remotely dangerous to his subordinates, including freshly trained recruits


    25. The black-robed figure began to move back, its whole shape bowed in cowardly posture, even as Maggie opened her mouth and started to sing the song that she heard so clearly


    26. 15 Now let us consider the matter; had any of them been weak spirited and cowardly among them,


    27. He was skeptical of me crossing paths with his relatives, but avoiding them would be the easy and cowardly thing to do


    28. This cowardly crime also in:


    29. The Ottawa Citizen called their actions "cowardly and despicable" and noted that


    30. had said he was against terrorists and their cowardly ways and here

    31. cowardly to admit it


    32. “You, who know exactly what it is like as much as anyone can without experiencing it themselves, you are now another female’s rapist!! It matters not that you were too cowardly to do the deed with your own hands, and so forced an innocent to be your weapon!! You are still the one who is violating her! And for eternity, Alilia!!! Eternity!!! You are the worst rapist who has ever lived, or who ever will live!!! You have shamed us all!!! How could you do it?!!!”


    33. him - that's where his shitty childhood and his being a cowardly


    34. how foolish and cowardly she was, she took comfort in


    35. “Given that only one in five of your nations’ populations are trained fighters, completely disregarding the cowardly races who would rather die than fight, we outnumber you in the field at about three to one


    36. 15 Now let us consider the matter; had any of them been weak spirited and cowardly among them what reasonings would they have employed but these? 16 O wretched that we are and exceeding senseless! when the king exhorts us and calls us to his bounty should we not obey him? 17 Why do we cheer ourselves with vain counsels and venture on a disobedience bringing death? 18 Shall we not fear O brethren the instruments of torture and weigh the threatenings of torment and shun this vain-glory and destructive pride? 19 Let us have compassion on our age and relent over the years of our mother


    37. 2 O reasonings more royal than a king and freer than freemen! 3 Sacred and harmonious concert of the seven brethren as concerning piety! 4 None of the seven youths turned cowardly or shrank back from death


    38. "Njal is dead, one of his sons is dead too and his cowardly other son is probably in Sweden by now


    39. I wish a divorce so that I can be free of my vows to Gunnar -- that nothing, that cowardly and unlucky failure of a wretch! I wish to re-marry, to Halfdan the Black


    40. "You're all a bunch of cowardly mangy dogs," Miles bellowed and they shoved him along

    41. The American infantry is said to be very cowardly but instead their artillery makes up for it


    42. Indeed, Wilfried is not cowardly because this task requires courage


    43. I’m just a cowardly little runt


    44. “The present peace is only nominal, for by it we have become emasculated and cowardly


    45. Non-violence was considered cowardly and was for the timid


    46. He was in exalted company and his cowardly heart seems to miss a beat


    47. With a little cowardly glance at some of the diners, Rochelle


    48. Running the hot water, he stepped in the shower and let the stream of water pound against his skin, washing away his cowardly filth


    49. John says in another place in Revelation 21:8 that the cowardly, the unbeliever, the abominable, the murders, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the Idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with Fire and Brimstone, which is the second Death


    50. What a bunch of cowardly wankers








































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    Synonyms for "cowardly"

    cowardly fearful

    "cowardly" definitions

    lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted