Definition of Cowardly

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Cowardly

Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.

In the manner of a coward.

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Cowardly Quotations

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon Bonaparte

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Steve Martin

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret Mead

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.
Bill Maher

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas Carlyle

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
Charles Horton Cooley

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus

Cowardly Translations

cowardly in French is couard
cowardly in German is feig

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