英语词汇“cowardice”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cowardice

/ˈkaʊədɪs

noun [mass noun]

1Lack of bravery: my cowardice got the better of me and I crept out of the room his 11th-hour decision not to hold an election led to accusations of cowardice...

Is it cowardice, the lack of moral backbone to tell the truth whatever the cost?
We have to make a definite move to cross over the boundary from cowardice to bravery.
He thought about ritual suicide and how it had changed from a demonstration of bravery to one of cowardice.

Synonyms

faint-heartedness, spiritlessness, spinelessness, timidity, timorousness, fearfulness, pusillanimity, weakness, feebleness

informal gutlessness, wimpishness, wimpiness, sissiness

British informal wetness

archaic poltroonery, recreancy

rare cravenness

2 [count noun] rare A group of mongrels or feral dogs.What deity draws his bow for such a cowardice of curs as run your streets?

Origin

Middle English: from Old French couardise, from couard (see coward).

单词	cowardice
释义	cowardice /ˈkaʊədɪs / noun [mass noun] 1Lack of bravery: my cowardice got the better of me and I crept out of the room his 11th-hour decision not to hold an election led to accusations of cowardice... Is it cowardice, the lack of moral backbone to tell the truth whatever the cost? We have to make a definite move to cross over the boundary from cowardice to bravery. He thought about ritual suicide and how it had changed from a demonstration of bravery to one of cowardice. Synonyms faint-heartedness, spiritlessness, spinelessness, timidity, timorousness, fearfulness, pusillanimity, weakness, feebleness informal gutlessness, wimpishness, wimpiness, sissiness British informal wetness archaic poltroonery, recreancy rare cravenness 2 [count noun] rare A group of mongrels or feral dogs.What deity draws his bow for such a cowardice of curs as run your streets? Origin Middle English: from Old French couardise, from couard (see coward).
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