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

In nearly every case, directing attention to mental health becomes a copout.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2016

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

From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2013

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

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2012

Read then exits rather sheepishly with the classic copout, "Let each reader decide upon its veracity for himself."

From Time Magazine Archive