copout
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But it is a copout of the shabbiest sort to exploit this anxiety as a way of averting our gaze from the undiminished threat of North Korea.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2017
In nearly every case, directing attention to mental health becomes a copout.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2016
It’s the only reasonable resolution to a conflict that is itself a copout.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2013
“But if I can rely on that old social sciences copout, we need more evidence.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2012
His idea of freedom is a sort of emotional copout, a yearning not so much to find something as to be away from everything.
From Time Magazine Archive
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