noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He called me a coward , because I wouldn't fight.
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Perhaps I should have turned back but I didn't want to be known as a quitter and a coward .
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She knew she was an awful coward about going to the dentist.
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They're cowards - they don't have the guts to confront me personally.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alan was a kind of unflinching coward who lived into an era of absolute cowards.
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Any coward with a grudge could do this to us anywhere, any time.
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I may even go so far as to say that I prefer cowards to heroes, given a choice.
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Many civil servants are moral cowards.
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The cabdrivers had run away, the cowards.
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Why would anyone want to go and see a man who was a coward ?
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You're a damned little coward , Hilary, and I don't know why I bother with you!