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uncourageous

  • a word derived from courageous.
    courageous
    adjective
    possessing or characterized by courage; brave.

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What right has he, a noncombatant desk officer who has always doubted his own courage, to browbeat the uncourageous?

From Time Magazine Archive

About them gather the uncourageous "intellectuals," who believe in the potency of all established and dominating power whatever it may be.

From The World Decision by Robert Herrick

But she did it with an uncourageous heart.

From Daisy's Aunt by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

They shape and form human minds into tastes and preferences and prejudices, the uncourageous origin of which the owners of the minds are far from divining.

From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield

An uncourageous faint smile seemed the safest response.

From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball