How to Use cowardice in a Sentence

cowardice

noun

• The corporate hierarchy in Hollywood ran away from The Apprentice like their hair was on fire, because of cowardice.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
• What cowardice has caused you to retreat from the ragged heart of the desert?
  — Mila Koumpilova, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• To point this out is not to condemn them on the grounds of cowardice.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2022
• Many cultures tie cowardice and bravery more to the heart or the guts than to the brain.
  — Arash Javanbakht, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• This is no place for cowardice and nerves have no home here.
  — Dania Haughton, SI.com, 28 May 2018
• And not all of it from a conscious place of evil or even cowardice.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 4 May 2018
• Rather than the brave thing to do, it will be perceived as cowardice.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• As the scene wears on, the camera itself seems moved by cowardice.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• This will go down as one of the great acts of cowardice in the recent history of sports.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2023
• There is a strain of cowardice here that now runs down the spine of all American life now.
  — GQ, 11 Oct. 2017
• Their cowardice has cost Kyle Beach, then a 20-year-old prospect, more than a decade of anguish.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
• To my colleagues: your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.
  — Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2017
• To my colleagues: Your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.
  — Ben Rowen, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
• Not one showed the cowardice of Trump, cringing in a bunker, afraid of his own citizens.
  — The Washington Post, 2 June 2020
• This is a tale of outright cowardice, but not on Harrell's part.
  — Author: Mary Sanchez, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
• Your editorial about the cowardice of the GOP hit the mark.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• Ely, on the other hand, acted with cowardice, Galvin said.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Reporting both sides of the story on the left and right now is denounced as moral cowardice.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2021
• Who is to say how many more coffins will be nailed by the cowardice of Guillen and the rest of his Republican colleagues?
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
• For their part, the kids see Logan’s cowardice toward Kerry as well, and call it out in kind.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2023
• Still, where does Trump’s particular form of cowardice leave the rest of us?
  — Sebastian Junger, The Hive, 25 Apr. 2017
• The killing of @RisingKashmir editor, Shujaat Bukhari is an act of cowardice.
  — Mukhtar Ahmad and Swati Gupta, CNN, 14 June 2018
• The bravery of Kyle Beach stands in stark contrast to the cowardice and callousness of so many others.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
• Dear Thanks but No Thanks!: Those acts sound more like acts of cowardice or, more likely, acts of laziness.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 14 May 2020
• There’s cowardice on one end and recklessness on one end.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Mar. 2018
• There is no reason for this except cowardice on the part of civilian politicians far from the long strands of barbed wire.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Mar. 2018
• Guilt is the absence of courage, and cowardice metastasizes.
  — Josh Roiland, Longreads, 1 Jan. 1950
• The Eagles accused the Rattlers of cowardice, for having staged their raid at night.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• Dear Trapped: Your boredom got you into this and your cowardice is keeping you in it.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2022
• The evasion of the narrative of an anointing or a coronation is already central to the character of her campaign, lest the voter feel hostage to the indecision and cowardice of her party.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024