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Definition of coward in English: cowardnoun ˈkaʊədˈkaʊ(ə)rd A person who is contemptibly lacking in the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things. they had run away—the cowards! Example sentencesExamples - Anonymous sources generally are cowards, who often tell more than they know.
- They were barely able to drag themselves back to camp like the pathetic weaklings and cowards they are.
- Yet I cannot believe that he is a moral coward by nature.
- What about the possibility that we somehow have raised a generation of moral cowards?
- ‘Our power is wielded by weaklings and cowards, and our honour is false in all its points’.
- Better to die of frostbite in that group of young guns than be branded a coward.
- Were one half of mankind brave and one half cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards.
- He resigns his commission and is branded a coward.
- But, when officers confronted Parker, he proved to be a craven coward who literally pulsed with guilt.
- Oh, and by the way, you're a gutless, treasonous coward.
- Hamlet says, this is what makes cowards of us all.
- And in the end, he himself was revealed to be a miserable coward.
- I am nothing but a coward who is too afraid to cruise the sea.
- All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
- The great thing about academics is that they are typically spineless cowards who really do respond to sufficient pressure.
- You're one of those men who like to make cowards think you're tough and dangerous.
- By demonstrating their courage, they have shown you for the cowards you are.
- In the end this aids only those who are served by public uncertainty - the cowards and the ruthless.
- Due to my not being enraged or scared of these cowards, there was no fear, and I believe they sensed that.
- To try to pretend he's not what he is: a poor, stinking, whimpering coward.
Synonyms weakling, milksop, namby-pamby, mouse informal chicken, scaredy-cat, fraidy-cat, yellow-belly, sissy, big baby British informal big girl's blouse North American informal candy-ass, pussy Australian/New Zealand informal dingo, sook informal, dated funk archaic poltroon, craven, recreant, caitiff
adjective ˈkaʊədˈkaʊ(ə)rd 1literary Excessively afraid of danger or pain. Example sentencesExamples - Surely everyone must have been able to hear the erratic pounding of her coward heart.
- I say it to you, coward spirit - not to anyone who abides by this code!
- We were always discussing that he is a coward man, that he will not fight for his life, that he will not fight for what he believes in.
- She squared her jaw and turned, feeling foolishly coward.
- Aidan had lost count how many times he'd cried himself to sleep in order to escape the pain that he was too coward to relieve himself of.
2Heraldry
(of an animal) depicted with the tail between the hind legs.
Origin Middle English: from Old French couard, based on Latin cauda 'tail', possibly with reference to a frightened animal with its tail between its legs, reflected in sense 2 of the adjective (early 16th century). The Latin word cauda ‘tail’ is the source of coward. This may be from the idea of a frightened animal drawing its tail between its legs or ‘turning tail’ in flight. In heraldry lion coward is the term for a lion depicted with its tail drawn between its hind legs. Despite the similarity in spelling and meaning, the verb cower (Middle English) has a completely different origin, coming from German kūren ‘lie in wait’.
Rhymes Howard, underpowered, unpowered Definition of coward in US English: cowardnounˈkou(ə)rdˈkaʊ(ə)rd A person who lacks the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things. they had run away—the cowards! Example sentencesExamples - He resigns his commission and is branded a coward.
- I am nothing but a coward who is too afraid to cruise the sea.
- To try to pretend he's not what he is: a poor, stinking, whimpering coward.
- Anonymous sources generally are cowards, who often tell more than they know.
- All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
- The great thing about academics is that they are typically spineless cowards who really do respond to sufficient pressure.
- What about the possibility that we somehow have raised a generation of moral cowards?
- They were barely able to drag themselves back to camp like the pathetic weaklings and cowards they are.
- Hamlet says, this is what makes cowards of us all.
- And in the end, he himself was revealed to be a miserable coward.
- Due to my not being enraged or scared of these cowards, there was no fear, and I believe they sensed that.
- In the end this aids only those who are served by public uncertainty - the cowards and the ruthless.
- ‘Our power is wielded by weaklings and cowards, and our honour is false in all its points’.
- By demonstrating their courage, they have shown you for the cowards you are.
- Oh, and by the way, you're a gutless, treasonous coward.
- Were one half of mankind brave and one half cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards.
- You're one of those men who like to make cowards think you're tough and dangerous.
- Yet I cannot believe that he is a moral coward by nature.
- Better to die of frostbite in that group of young guns than be branded a coward.
- But, when officers confronted Parker, he proved to be a craven coward who literally pulsed with guilt.
Synonyms weakling, milksop, namby-pamby, mouse
adjectiveˈkou(ə)rdˈkaʊ(ə)rd 1literary Excessively afraid of danger or pain. Example sentencesExamples - I say it to you, coward spirit - not to anyone who abides by this code!
- Surely everyone must have been able to hear the erratic pounding of her coward heart.
- Aidan had lost count how many times he'd cried himself to sleep in order to escape the pain that he was too coward to relieve himself of.
- She squared her jaw and turned, feeling foolishly coward.
- We were always discussing that he is a coward man, that he will not fight for his life, that he will not fight for what he believes in.
2Heraldry
(of an animal) depicted with the tail between the hind legs.
Origin Middle English: from Old French couard, based on Latin cauda ‘tail’, possibly with reference to a frightened animal with its tail between its legs, reflected in coward (sense 2 of the adjective) (early 16th century). |