cowards
- plural of coward.
Example Sentences
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Instead, like cowards, they cast around for weaker parties to victimize.
From Salon • Jun. 17, 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
It was because I was forced to learn at a very young age that most bullies are cowards, that confrontation is necessary, that you must get it all on tape.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2025
As if they were cowards instead of big bad soldiers.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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