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coward
noun as in person who is scared, easily intimidated
Strongest match
Strong matches
alarmist, baby, chicken, craven, cur, dastard, deserter, invertebrate, jellyfish, malingerer, mouse, pessimist, poltroon, quitter, rabbit, recreant, shirker, skulker, sneak, weakling
Weak matches
chickenheart, faint-of-heart, faintheart, fraidy-cat, gutless wonder, lily liver, scaredy-cat, shirk, white liver, yellowbelly
Example Sentences
By means of bribery and persuasion and threats, Madame Babushkinov had finally convinced her to stop acting like a coward and get out of bed.
Last week, relatives of the victims shouted "murderer", "coward" and "get out" at Mazon as he arrived for a state memorial service for the victims in the Mediterranean city of Valencia.
Mr. Cruz nailed the point when he said Friday that “if you say nothing when someone tells you that Adolf Hitler was cool, you are a coward and complicit in evil.”
Her conclusion was startling, her tone defiant: “Put me wherever you want: misguided socialist, toothless humanist, naïve novelist, useful idiot, apologist, denier, ally, contrarian, collaborator, traitor, inexcusable coward.”
She branded the culprits "cowards" who had committed an act of "treachery".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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