Example sentences for: cowardly

How can you use “cowardly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, blackmailing, cowardly, thoroughly dishonest creep.

  • The government is being both foolish and cowardly, afraid of being attacked by conservatives for doing anything that might be labeled "immoral."

  • Sure, this is cowardly, intellectually dishonest, and an insult to the democratic process, but it's also thrifty, and that's important, too.

  • And they're just too cowardly to take on the drug-war lobby.

  • 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.


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