cowardliness

Example Sentences

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Instead, he corralled members of his staff for a photograph that, in its nightmarish awkwardness, revealed all the ineptitude, cowardliness and pettiness for which the whole charade was a grotesque cover.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2020

He might have continued helping him out, but his cowardliness incites Walt’s manliness.

From Salon • May 29, 2017

The cowardliness of hiding behind a digital persona, and how we trash and deride people as well as how we relate as millennials.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2016

And Father Gabriel apparently undergoes his own personal crisis of cowardliness that is all tied up in his personal faith.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2014

No one was going to kill me just for saying that I wanted to sing, but I made it seem that way with my cowardliness.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers