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cowardliness



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Instead, he corralled members of his staff for a photograph that, in its nightmarish awkwardness, revealed all the ineptitude, cowardliness and pettiness for which the whole charade was a grotesque cover.

From Washington Post Jun. 2, 2020

He might have continued helping him out, but his cowardliness incites Walt’s manliness.

From Salon May 29, 2017

The cowardliness of hiding behind a digital persona, and how we trash and deride people as well as how we relate as millennials.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2016

And Father Gabriel apparently undergoes his own personal crisis of cowardliness that is all tied up in his personal faith.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 24, 2014

“You can never lose that. It cuts the feet from under weakness and cowardliness and laziness.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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