cowards
- plural of coward.
Example Sentences
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Breaking ranks in a constitutional democracy may not incur the same risks as in a totalitarian regime, but revising the dictionary of received ideas isn’t for cowards in any society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
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
"I'm not afraid of cowards," she told BBC Newsnight.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 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
But I had begun to hope they were not all cowards, and to me, this decision sounds very much like cowardice.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
