But when I look out over the crowd now, I also see that they are trapped—trapped by their cowardice.
In the end he told the general he should shoot himself for his cowardice.
But Boehner and the Republicans refused, completely out of cowardice and to spite Obama.
In the back of their patrol car, with her hands cuffed behind her, she mocks their cowardice.
“I think it comes from idiocy and cowardice,” said Whedon of the female superhero problem.
Perhaps the quiet of his boy had not been altogether the quiet of cowardice.
He fell on the floor, and in weakness mixed with cowardice lay where he fell.
She stood against the door, and accused them of cowardice—taunted them.
What is to be said about the folly and cowardice of the suicide's act?
But by this cowardice all he gained was the King's contempt.
c.1300, from Old French coardise (13c.), from coard, coart (see coward) + noun suffix -ise.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. [Ernest Hemingway, "Men at War," 1942]
