coward
noun
a person who lacks courage in facing danger, difficulty, opposition, pain, etc.; a timid or easily intimidated person.
cowards
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pluralof coward.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And the likeliest one is also the simplest: They’re cowards.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
Guadagnino’s driving interest is attacking academia as a rat’s nest of egomaniacs and cowards and insular, faux-radical thinking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Decades ago, people who buckled their seat belts were thought to be signaling that they were cowards, afraid of getting in a crash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
Ramaphosa said at the time they were "cowards".
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
“Some will. Not all. We have our cowards and our knaves, our weaklings and our fools, as do they.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
