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Whoomp, whoomp bumped the coward heart.
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This butter-yellow tunic feels cheerful, airy, and incredibly chic for summer.
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Neon blue airbrushing radiated off a sunshine-yellow base, while hot pink auras stood in stark contrast to white French tips.
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Some also have lost lawyers, dismayed by the pusillanimous behavior of their leaders.
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The second believed the United States could attain comprehensive security through military-technological means and saw diplomacy as a quixotic or pusillanimous enterprise that dishonored and weakened the country.
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This origin tale of Don Diego Vega, and his masked adventurer/avenger alter ego Zorro, righting wrongs against craven evildoers in early-day California, was adapted into a silent movie hit in 1920.
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It’s populated by craven, cowardly traitors.
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Lindsey Graham is a career, corrupt, cowardly politician.
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This caused a great clamor of approval, and a modicum of tepid ooh-la-la disapproval by the folks who actually approved but who were too cowardly to say so, back in the day.
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Yes, Arsenal fan Neel from New Delhi held his nerve on the final day to shake off the persistent and heroic challenge of six-year-old Wilfred — and the meandering, distinctly unheroic challenge of a 51-year-old journalist.
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That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.
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This, to Newsom, is being strong; the right are the fainthearted schoolmarms now.
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Going to the theatre in that period was hardly an entertainment for the fainthearted, and calamity was not confined to the stage.
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Kara and Ruthye figure out the Brigands are trafficking young women for dastardly purposes, giving them yet another reason to smack some dudes around.
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However, the big reveal of a Scooby being portrayed by a real dog in the show will make even the most dastardly villain's heart melt.
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“Weakhearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weakhearted. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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