Synonyms for cowardliness


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kou-erd-lee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkaʊ ərd li


Définition of cowardliness

Origin :
  • 1550s, from coward + -ly (1). The adverb (late 14c.) is much older than the adjective:
  • Yit had I levir do what I may Than here to dye thus cowerdelye ["Le Morte d'Arthur," c.1450]
  • An Old English word for "cowardly" was earg, which also meant "slothful." Related: Cowardliness.
  • noun cowardice
Example sentences :
  • I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it.
  • Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
  • Should he shrink from the duties of life, into the cowardliness of death?
  • Extract from : « Mary Barton » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • To my mind, these questions only bespeak our weakness and our cowardliness.
  • Extract from : « A Guide to Health » by Mahatma Gandhi
  • The cowardliness of the Edinburgh is more than the abuse of the Quarterly.
  • Extract from : « Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends » by John Keats
  • It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made me what I am.
  • Extract from : « Les Misrables » by Victor Hugo
  • I felt as if I should have tumbled down with sheer fright and cowardliness.
  • Extract from : « Robbery Under Arms » by Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood
  • You and I may call that cowardliness, but the party calls it honour and applauds every time.
  • Extract from : « The Voice of the People » by Ellen Glasgow
  • And though the meanness and cowardliness were apparent, Louis looked at little else than the extreme agony of the suppliant.
  • Extract from : « Louis' School Days » by E. J. May
  • At the thought his past sin and his present disgrace appeared to him not only as crime but as cowardliness.
  • Extract from : « The Ancient Law » by Ellen Glasgow
  • He had felt this cowardliness and was continually trying to distort it into more self-ennobling emotions.
  • Extract from : « Gargoyles » by Ben Hecht

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