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cowardice

[kou-er-dis] / ˈkaʊ ər dɪs /


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Cowardice on this scale is not a single act; it includes all the guilty silences that complicity continues to require.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2020

But let’s agree about one thing, if we can: Cowardice and caution will not get it done.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2019

From British journalist Nick Cohen’s “The Cowardice of John Le Carré” for the April issue of Standpoint magazine, a passage about the author’s “post-Cold War politics”:

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2016

“The Cowardice of Colin Powell: Is there anyone in American public life who gets so much credit for being a leader, while not truly leading?” by Nathaniel Frank.

From Slate • May 26, 2012

“That isn’t overcoming cowardice! Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life, and in real life, I am not getting pecked to death by crows, Four!”

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth




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