cowardliness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cowardliness
Noun
  • This is a courageous act that requires vulnerability over cowardice.
    Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • My silence felt like cowardice, stemming from a fear of alienation, of feeling unsafe—exactly what the ADL, unironically, pledges to ameliorate in school settings.
    Sahar Mustafah August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • What a profile in pusillanimity.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 May 2022
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“Cowardliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cowardliness. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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