cower
verb (used without object)
to crouch, as in fear or shame.
coweringly
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a word derived from
cower.
Example Sentences
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Holton looked coweringly from one to the other.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson
Open violence at any rate was not to be apprehended from the stunted little figure of a man who coweringly obeyed his order.
From The Duke Decides by Headon Hill
She took an involuntary step backward, encountered the chair she had just left, and sank into it coweringly.
From Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber
He walked coweringly round and round his room, with frantic gestures, with head bowed.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
"Ay," returned Lord Andrew; "but the royal spirit keeps the beast in awe-see how coweringly that bold spirit now bows before it!"
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
