copout

Example Sentences

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There’s an emerging conventional wisdom that abandoning Facebook but staying on Instagram and Whatsapp is self-defeating, nonsensical, or a copout.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2018

Well, the ultimate answer to all that is probably a copout.

From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 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

Said Shultz: "This to me is a copout; it seems more concerned with making us feel better than with having an impact on the situation we deplore."

From Time Magazine Archive