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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Instead, like cowards, they cast around for weaker parties to victimize.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
She branded the culprits "cowards" who had committed an act of "treachery".
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 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
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
I felt then that these men—these “fathers”—were the greatest of cowards.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
