Synonyms for cowardliness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kou-erd-lee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkaʊ ərd li

Définition of cowardliness

Origin : 1550s, from coward + -ly (1). The adverb (late 14c.) is much older than the adjective:
Yit had I levir do what I may Than here to dye thus cowerdelye ["Le Morte d'Arthur," c.1450]
An Old English word for "cowardly" was earg, which also meant "slothful." Related: Cowardliness.

noun cowardice

Example sentences :

I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it.
Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola

Should he shrink from the duties of life, into the cowardliness of death?
Extract from : « Mary Barton » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

To my mind, these questions only bespeak our weakness and our cowardliness.
Extract from : « A Guide to Health » by Mahatma Gandhi

The cowardliness of the Edinburgh is more than the abuse of the Quarterly.
Extract from : « Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends » by John Keats

It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made me what I am.
Extract from : « Les Misrables » by Victor Hugo

I felt as if I should have tumbled down with sheer fright and cowardliness.
Extract from : « Robbery Under Arms » by Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

You and I may call that cowardliness, but the party calls it honour and applauds every time.
Extract from : « The Voice of the People » by Ellen Glasgow

And though the meanness and cowardliness were apparent, Louis looked at little else than the extreme agony of the suppliant.
Extract from : « Louis' School Days » by E. J. May

At the thought his past sin and his present disgrace appeared to him not only as crime but as cowardliness.
Extract from : « The Ancient Law » by Ellen Glasgow

He had felt this cowardliness and was continually trying to distort it into more self-ennobling emotions.
Extract from : « Gargoyles » by Ben Hecht

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