cowed
adjective
frightened by threats, violence, superior strength or ability, etc.; intimidated or overawed.
uncowed
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a word derived from
cowed.
Example Sentences
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In another, Munshi stands defiantly before the entrance of a boycotted British department store, uncowed by a group of British police officers towering over her - and stylishly dressed in a sleeveless sari blouse.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
These particular metaphors were slapdash and prideful and aspirational and just bafflingly inadequate: They positioned the virus as the enemy and resisting it as continuing, uncowed, to eat at restaurants.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2022
He thinks a Black cartoonist might also be uniquely critical and uncowed by the diversity of the Biden administration: “There’s an old saying in Black culture: ‘All skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.’
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2021
In the movie, Wakefield presents himself as uncowed and unashamed, David standing up to the Goliath of big pharma.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019
He glared balefully at the uncowed Earthmen and spoke again, evidently repeating his command.
From The Red Hell of Jupiter by Paul Ernst
