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

And I knew she had strong feelings about open marriages, which she considered a copout out for couples looking for an end run around their marriage vows.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2013

“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

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