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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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
At last, a mean, half-starved dog crept coweringly across the lawn, and, drawing nigh the door, stood and whined plaintively.
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever
"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
Holton looked coweringly from one to the other.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson
Then backward shrank, till abruptly checked by a column, against whose base, as were he an effigy carved upon it, he stood, gazing coweringly upward.
From The Red Moccasins A Story by Morrison Heady
