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cowardliness

/kou-erd-lee/US // ˈkaʊ ərd li //UK // (ˈkaʊədlɪ) //

胆小怕事,怯懦,懦弱,怯懦性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
    • : characteristic of or befitting a coward; despicably mean, covert, or unprincipled: a cowardly attack on a weak, defenseless man.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : like a coward.

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Examples

  • The Labor Department should not encourage this cowardly vision of entrepreneurship in America’s workplace laws.

  • I say that the cowardliness of this attack stands out even more conspicuous, to my eye, than its brutality or its inhumanity.

  • He felt the ground slipping from under him as he, too, realized the completeness and cowardliness of the plot.

  • Is not the disposition of the soul's irascible part different according to its courage or cowardliness?

  • Courage produces in those who do not possess it in the proper proportions, either violence or cowardliness.

  • And in order to clothe their spiritual cowardliness and laziness in a pious garb, they say: "The Bible is enough for us."