copout

Example Sentences

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It’s the only reasonable resolution to a conflict that is itself a copout.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2013

And that’s a huge copout, I think, in the sincerity push in art.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2012

“But if I can rely on that old social sciences copout, we need more evidence.”

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2012

Of Masters's many virtues, the topmost is the way he refuses easy copout labels for a tricky person, his commitment to human variety and unfathomability.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2011

Christian C. DeBaun Allston, Mass. Your selection of a computer is a copout.

From Time Magazine Archive