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Example sentences for: cowardly

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"": Was Clinton's decision to call off the Iraq attack cowardly or courageous?
The government is being both foolish and cowardly, afraid of being attacked by conservatives for doing anything that might be labeled "immoral."
The short-term betting favors Milosevic, on the grounds that the working class is too distracted, ignorant, and cowardly to join the opposition.
'Tis certain there's not a boy left alive; and the cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done this slaughter: besides, they have burn'd and carried away all that was in the king's tent; wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every soldier to cut his prisoner's throat.
Her children's personal lives are deliberately excised from the book; the cowardly episode in which she and Ben Bradlee misused their inordinate power to scuttle a wretchedly flawed book about her ( Katharine the Great by Deborah Davis, published in 1979) is not mentioned; and she only hints at her post-Phil romantic life.