How to Use cowardice in a Sentence

cowardice

noun
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  • Despite the cowardice of the courts, Uncle Robbie has no intention of stopping.
    — Maggie Knight-Williams, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024
  • What cowardice has caused you to retreat from the ragged heart of the desert?
    — Mila Koumpilova, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
  • To point this out is not to condemn them on the grounds of cowardice.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Many cultures tie cowardice and bravery more to the heart or the guts than to the brain.
    — Arash Javanbakht, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This is no place for cowardice and nerves have no home here.
    — Dania Haughton, SI.com, 28 May 2018
  • And not all of it from a conscious place of evil or even cowardice.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 4 May 2018
  • Rather than the brave thing to do, it will be perceived as cowardice.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • As the scene wears on, the camera itself seems moved by cowardice.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2022
  • This will go down as one of the great acts of cowardice in the recent history of sports.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2023
  • There is a strain of cowardice here that now runs down the spine of all American life now.
    — GQ, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Their cowardice has cost Kyle Beach, then a 20-year-old prospect, more than a decade of anguish.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
  • To my colleagues: your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.
    — Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2017
  • To my colleagues: Your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.
    — Ben Rowen, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Not one showed the cowardice of Trump, cringing in a bunker, afraid of his own citizens.
    — The Washington Post, 2 June 2020
  • This is a tale of outright cowardice, but not on Harrell's part.
    — Author: Mary Sanchez, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
  • Your editorial about the cowardice of the GOP hit the mark.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
  • Ely, on the other hand, acted with cowardice, Galvin said.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Reporting both sides of the story on the left and right now is denounced as moral cowardice.
    — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Who is to say how many more coffins will be nailed by the cowardice of Guillen and the rest of his Republican colleagues?
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
  • For their part, the kids see Logan’s cowardice toward Kerry as well, and call it out in kind.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Still, where does Trump’s particular form of cowardice leave the rest of us?
    — Sebastian Junger, The Hive, 25 Apr. 2017
  • The killing of @RisingKashmir editor, Shujaat Bukhari is an act of cowardice.
    — Mukhtar Ahmad and Swati Gupta, CNN, 14 June 2018
  • The bravery of Kyle Beach stands in stark contrast to the cowardice and callousness of so many others.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Dear Thanks but No Thanks!: Those acts sound more like acts of cowardice or, more likely, acts of laziness.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 14 May 2020
  • There’s cowardice on one end and recklessness on one end.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Mar. 2018
  • There is no reason for this except cowardice on the part of civilian politicians far from the long strands of barbed wire.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Guilt is the absence of courage, and cowardice metastasizes.
    — Josh Roiland, Longreads, 1 Jan. 1950
  • The Eagles accused the Rattlers of cowardice, for having staged their raid at night.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Dear Trapped: Your boredom got you into this and your cowardice is keeping you in it.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2022
  • This kind of cowardice must be roundly condemned by all Americans.
    — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2024

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