cowardice
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Cowardice on this scale is not a single act; it includes all the guilty silences that complicity continues to require.
From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2020
But let’s agree about one thing, if we can: Cowardice and caution will not get it done.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2019
From British journalist Nick Cohen’s “The Cowardice of John Le Carré” for the April issue of Standpoint magazine, a passage about the author’s “post-Cold War politics”:
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2016
“The Cowardice of Colin Powell: Is there anyone in American public life who gets so much credit for being a leader, while not truly leading?” by Nathaniel Frank.
From Slate • May 26, 2012
Our office motto: Cowardice is what you make of it.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Vocabulary lists containing cowardice
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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