Cowardlily

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a cowardly manner. rare

    "Whenever I hear of some unhappy individual ungratefully and cowardlily yielding to the temptations of despair, and flinging away the existence which he fancied for him was now grown bare of promise, […]"

Example

More examples

"Whenever I hear of some unhappy individual ungratefully and cowardlily yielding to the temptations of despair, and flinging away the existence which he fancied for him was now grown bare of promise, […]"

Etymology

From cowardly + -ly.

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