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Example sentences for: cop-out

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"Credibility," in short, used to be a cover-up; now it's a cop-out.
"This is a cop-out," he wrote.
What's more, Smiley wrote, readers have always sensed that the happy ending is slapped on, a cop-out; probably the book would have dropped out of sight if certain self-promoting writers hadn't started talking it up early in this century.
But it also seems a cop-out to say that if the candidates don't disagree, then there's no way to cover the issues.
And Scott's I-only-called-for-a-study-what-are-you-afraid-of reply, it seems to me, is a cop-out.