cowardliness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cowardliness
Noun
  • But there is a certain level of caution, and maybe even occasionally cowardice, in how these political topics are handled.
    Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
    Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
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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“Cowardliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cowardliness. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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