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Recent Examples of cowardice Trump’s accelerationist instincts, the zeal of his fan base, and the complicity, cowardice, and inaction of the Democratic Party in the face of the governing Republican trifecta made the possibility of a military dictatorship in the United States seem borderline plausible. Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025 The censoring of artists and cancellation of shows is an act of cowardice. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025 This is a courageous act that requires vulnerability over cowardice. Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025 The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible. Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cowardice
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pusillanimity
Noun
  • Given the President’s long-standing support for corporate tax cuts and deregulation of industry, this pusillanimity is perhaps not so surprising.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boasts and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon, and Texas, are yet unsung.
    Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022

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“Cowardice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cowardice. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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