Example Sentences

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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

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 Canfield, Dorothy

But—he eyed Pedro doubtfully, knowing his uncourageous bearing at the rodeo.

From Unexplored! by Chaffee, Allen

But she did it with an uncourageous heart.

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

And this, not in conscious opposition to his mother's will; but in protest, not uncourageous, against the limitations imposed on him by physical misfortune.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas