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Example sentences for: cowardly

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Unfortunately, for most of the period of home rule, Washington has been not just a one-paper town, but a cowardly one-paper town.
'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.
The goal to life in the Gordonian universe is to do good--or to do Clinton, provided one isn't too cowardly to snap one's thong.
The government is being both foolish and cowardly, afraid of being attacked by conservatives for doing anything that might be labeled "immoral."
All the while portraying the GOP's focus on facts as a cowardly ruse to "hide behind the curtain" of jury scruple.