How to Use cowardly in a Sentence

cowardly

1 of 2 adverb

• Her life was taken from her at the young age of 23 in a senseless cowardly act .
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 17 Jan. 2023
• Maybe that was cowardly in your view, but don’t focus on that.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• But the cowardly Arthur grabs a pistol and goes after Spencer.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
• The show’s heart may be in the right place, but its timidity comes off as clumsy at best and cowardly at worst.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023
• The Lions have few holes, and are anything but cowardly.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Roman whirls on her with a cowardly flash of teeth, cutting her loose and losing her loyalty in the process.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 30 May 2023
• The exchange reminded me of the word Snyder used earlier in the day -- cowardly.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
• The handsome, young Rissman does not at all match the portly, balding, cowardly Harry Strickland of the books.
  — Joanna Robinson, vanityfair.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• If anything, its tweet exposed just how cowardly it’s been.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
• And the officer, the superior, a lieutenant, who is still injured at home, by the way, was cowardly attacked with a brick.
  — Mark Morales, CNN, 22 June 2020
• But his slow start and cowardly late-game decision are both huge blemishes on his record.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• The once-cowardly clergyman has earned my Most Improved Character Award, by the way.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 July 2021
• Are the Simpsons colored yellow because the show is cowardly, its one-time edginess just a relic from before the days of PC fascism?
  — Armond White, National Review, 21 Apr. 2021
• There are cowardly racists hiding in the corners, hiding in their nasty existence.
  — Nyakio Grieco, refinery29.com, 8 June 2020
• Mark Twain comes along and, in a three-to-four-page comic rant about the animal, gives us a way to think of it as a cowardly, despicable little wretch that lives off carrion.
  — National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2016
• Ditching your wife for the empty promise of an online affair is a rotten, cowardly, lowdown way out.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• At worst, the county states, someone could conclude that Loomis acted cowardly — but the due process clause doesn't require officers to act bravely.
  — Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 18 Jan. 2018
• First, using state savings accounts to fill massive state deficits for the sake of propping up the Alaska economy has been short-sighted, stupid and, on the part of politicians, cowardly.
  — Ronnie Chappell, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 June 2017
• Wolff shines, too; his Craig is ambitious and amiable and cowardly, the kind of guy whose commitment to principle is secondary to being right.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• In this Wizard of Oz sequel, Glenda and the no-longer-cowardly lion teach Dorothy about the powers inherent in her other clothing items.
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
• Bobby Petrino cowardly fled the Atlanta Falcons – and didn’t even face his players – after just 13 games to return to the college level.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2018
• His captivating Teach is the hair-trigger-tempered, cowardly bull in Donny’s cluttered shop — where the characters are as much discards as the bric-a-brac.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• The hate group had originally planned their parade in Pelham, but cowardly moved it when protestors showed up.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 4 Dec. 2016
• Roland grapples with the notion that there is something cowardly or dishonest about laying all his troubles at the door of Miriam Cornell.
  — Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
• Part of the blame lies with the partisan distortion of Democrats, part with their media echoes, and now part with CEOs of major companies who are uninformed at best or cowardly at worst.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
• The government called the violence barbaric and cowardly and announced three days of mourning.
  — Sam Mednick, ajc, 15 Nov. 2021
• Those that are so unforgiving as to seek this retribution, so cowardly as to grant it, and so dishonest as to excuse it are broken.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 30 Dec. 2020
• Paris is described in the Iliad as unskilled and cowardly, epitomized by his decision to use a bow and arrow in the Trojan War rather than engage in hand-to-hand combat.
  — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 6 Oct. 2021
• The bullying Sanhedrin constables, led by a pricelessly cowardly Jared Loftin, are all about keeping the oppressed in line.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• Indeed, to silence speech for fear of reprisal is a cowardly, a surrender of our most basic constitutional rights.
  — Orrin Hatch, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018

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cowardly

2 of 2 adjective

• She made a cowardly decision to go along with the group.
• He insisted on avoiding a cowardly retreat.
• Don't get caught up with the suit and tie my cowardly friend.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 21 Jan. 2021
• I was born and raised here and to back away now would be kind of cowardly.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 3 Jan. 2017
• Singing the Blues Dear Blues: Breaking up with you over text is a cowardly move.
  — cleveland, 24 Apr. 2022
• But once again, Donald Trump took the cowardly way out.
  — ABC News, 20 Nov. 2022
• The prince finds sour amusement in the way the old lout can talk his way out of any cowardly mischief, but his mind is elsewhere.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
• Stick to sports was always a crutch for the comfortable and cowardly.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 June 2020
• But in this case, aren’t there other avenues for such a cowardly act?
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2020
• Dirrell didn't fight again for 21 months and, in fact, in the seven years since that cowardly act, has fought only seven times.
  — Bob Velin, USA TODAY, 20 May 2017
• This cowardly act is a symptom of the current day sports landscape.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022
• Among the more cowardly acts of the time was the Swedish Academy’s refusal to issue a statement in support of Rushdie.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
• This kind of cowardly attack has no place in our country.
  — Dallas News, 1 July 2019
• The cowardly fox will run away forever if it is left alone with two chickens.
  — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
• Taken out of arms and lives, in this freaking cowardly way, so young, so innocent, full of life and love.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 26 May 2022
• These heinous, cowardly assaults are an attack not just on law enforcement, but on the rule of law.
  — Emanuella Grinberg, CNN, 8 May 2018
• And that's what makes made Leonard's apology all the more insincere and cowardly.
  — Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
• Hate speech disguised as free speech is cowardly and shameful.
  — Peter Helman, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2017
• Snapshots are all that’s required to show him as the cowardly sidekick of slum gang leader Latif (Chetan Sharma).
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 11 Oct. 2021
• This is cowardly and flies in the face of anyone’s idea of accountability.
  — Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• The story turns courageous and cowardly, sometimes in a single scene.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2019
• For a player to not put his name on the quote and to bash Terry, who has a lot of success for taking us to the playoffs in back-to-back years, in my opinion, that is cowardly and lazy.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 30 Sep. 2017
• Anger for the police officer that was involved in this cowardly act.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2021
• Children and teachers were murdered in a cowardly attack in their Texas school.
  — Roxana Saberi, CBS News, 26 May 2022
• His cowardly specialty was picking off the old, weak and infirm stragglers at the back of the Exodus pack.
  — Lou Weiss, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
• Mrs May was equally cowardly in her approach to social care.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• There’s Pontius Pilate who can’t find a real reason to condemn Jesus, but is too cowardly to buck the crowds.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 23 Mar. 2018
• And a profound pain for the cowardly acts committed in the mountain range between Sonora and Chihuahua.
  — Jasmine Aguilera, Time, 5 Nov. 2019
• Yes, human beings jeered and threw full soda cans at a mother and child from the cowardly position of a moving car.
  — Christine Koh, CNN, 18 Mar. 2021
• Some critics of the board, including members of the Real Facebook Oversight Board and others, feel like its punt was cowardly.
  — Washington Post, 6 May 2021

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