COWARDICES Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

cowardice

noun

ˈkau̇(-ə)r-dəs

as in fearfulness

a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger the cowardice shown by political leaders who were willing to give the Nazis whatever they wanted

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Recent Examples of cowardice Devereaux receives a hero’s welcome back home, but his irrational and violent behavior threatens his new livelihood, as does the knowledge of his cowardice held by Capt. —

Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026 Trump had also accused NATO allies of cowardice over their reluctance to help open the strait. —

Michael Loria, USA Today, 22 Mar. 2026 Outsourcing judgment and calling it strategy is cowardice, not augmentation. —

Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Mar. 2026 His first period piece, the film follows a Belgian soldier grappling with cowardice and heroism in the trenches of WWI. —

Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cowardice

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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