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Coward
"Coward" in a Sentence (17 examples)
"To tell you the truth, I am scared of heights." "You are a coward!"
You are not a coward.
We looked down on him as a coward.
In a word, he is a coward.
I'm a coward when it comes to cockroaches.
The boy mocked his friend for being a coward.
The youngster resented being treated as a coward.
John is brave in appearance, but is in reality a coward.
Jim called me a coward.
I've triumphed over that coward.
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Near-synonyms: big baby, baby
Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: […]
1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.
It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4, He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries.
Invading Fears repel my Coward Joy; And Ills foreseen the pleasant Bliss destroy.
The first he coped with was their captain, whom / His sword sent headless to seek out a tomb. / This cowarded the valour of the rest, […]
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