as in fearfulness
a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger
it was sheer cravenness to avoid the consequences of your actions
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Of course, cowardice isn’t the only answer — some of those leaders believe strongly in the federal government’s discriminatory and overzealous enforcement practices that put students at risk and create a climate of fear and anxiety in their own universities.—
Thomas Kennedy,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2026 -
Courage lies somewhere between cowardice and recklessness, generosity between stinginess and extravagance.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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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
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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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“Cravenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cravenness. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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