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Adjective
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The look features bright coral eyeshadow covering the eyelid, a fuchsia shade in the crease, and a swipe of fluorescent yellow eyeliner on the outside half of the eye and right under the brow.—
Andrea Park,
Teen Vogue,
20 July 2017 -
In addition to selling yellow mustard and hot sauce, the division makes ketchup, onion flavorings and other products.—
Nick Turner,
Bloomberg.com,
19 July 2017
Adjective
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Mark Kelly Americans who are rightfully appalled by the pusillanimous response to anti-Semitism on college campuses have been pulling their donations and calling for restrictions on anti-Israel student groups.—
Arthur Levitt,
WSJ,
12 Nov. 2023
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Those clumsy tales revealed Chazelle’s pusillanimous career ambitions.—
Armond White,
National Review,
13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.—
Gabriel Winslow-Yost,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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In the world of The Boys, based on the gleefully scabrous 2000s indie comic-book series of the same name by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, superheroes are real, pop-culture-dominating, and with rare exceptions, entirely unheroic.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
13 June 2024
Adjective
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Hundreds of timorous Timothée Chalamet lookalikes congregated in Washington Square Park.—
Raven Smith,
Vogue,
18 Dec. 2024
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Phillips has made a jukebox spectacle that’s bold in conception but oddly cautious, even timorous, in execution.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
11 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Woods stars as Louise, who transforms from timid wallflower into the famed burlesque dancer known as Gypsy Rose Lee.—
Kristen Tauer,
WWD,
20 Jan. 2025
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The video introduces several of GRRR's residents, including George, a timid golden retriever who was abused and is now slowly building his confidence around people.—
Lydia Patrick,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Between the lines: One view is that these actions are simply craven pandering.—
Felix Salmon,
Axios,
13 Jan. 2025
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The main one is that the powerbrokers in the MLB offices are craven, and their souls have been replaced with line graphs going up and up and up.—
Grant Brisbee,
The Athletic,
18 July 2024
Adjective
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Instead, the anti-death penalty interests in this country conduct their arguments in insidious and even cowardly ways, all in effort to avoid a clear yes or no debate about the death penalty itself.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
18 Dec. 2024
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Social media has erupted with praise for this cowardly attack.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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For starters, Rate-A-Queen is back — no surprise after the success of the dastardly Plane Jane versus the hero Nymphia Wind.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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There is a chance too that an outsider broke into the internals of AI and made dastardly changes.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Uncourageous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncourageous. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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