How to Use cowardice in a Sentence

cowardice

noun

• To point this out is not to condemn them on the grounds of cowardice.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2022
• Many cultures tie cowardice and bravery more to the heart or the guts than to the brain.
  — Arash Javanbakht, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• This is no place for cowardice and nerves have no home here.
  — Dania Haughton, SI.com, 28 May 2018
• And not all of it from a conscious place of evil or even cowardice.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 4 May 2018
• Rather than the brave thing to do, it will be perceived as cowardice.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• As the scene wears on, the camera itself seems moved by cowardice.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• This will go down as one of the great acts of cowardice in the recent history of sports.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2023
• Their cowardice has cost Kyle Beach, then a 20-year-old prospect, more than a decade of anguish.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
• Not one showed the cowardice of Trump, cringing in a bunker, afraid of his own citizens.
  — The Washington Post, 2 June 2020
• Reporting both sides of the story on the left and right now is denounced as moral cowardice.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2021
• Who is to say how many more coffins will be nailed by the cowardice of Guillen and the rest of his Republican colleagues?
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
• For their part, the kids see Logan’s cowardice toward Kerry as well, and call it out in kind.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2023
• The killing of @RisingKashmir editor, Shujaat Bukhari is an act of cowardice.
  — Mukhtar Ahmad and Swati Gupta, CNN, 14 June 2018
• The bravery of Kyle Beach stands in stark contrast to the cowardice and callousness of so many others.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
• Dear Thanks but No Thanks!: Those acts sound more like acts of cowardice or, more likely, acts of laziness.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 14 May 2020
• The Eagles accused the Rattlers of cowardice, for having staged their raid at night.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• Dear Trapped: Your boredom got you into this and your cowardice is keeping you in it.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2022
• But those who feed ravenously at the trough of fear can also wind up full of cowardice and hysteria.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
• They aren’t supposed to call out the hypocrisy, inaction, and cowardice of the most powerful people in the world to their faces, again and again and again.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 27 Dec. 2019
• That pulling a weapon at a fistfight is a shameful act of cowardice and betrayal of a timeless code.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 18 Aug. 2019
• Tis also a kind of cowardice that has introduced the custom of seconds, thirds and fourths...
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
• The reason that the needle hasn’t moved in America’s response to these tragedies is the NRA’s money and the cowardice of politicians who take it.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2019
• At the next mass shooting, act with competence, not cowardice.
  — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 26 Apr. 2018
• After a childhood act of cowardice, Amir spends most of the play reflecting on and trying to atone for his failure to come to the aid of his best friend.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2022
• Running away and hiding from his constituents just shows cowardice on his part.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 7 June 2023
• On the face of it, my behavior looks like the product of an outsized ego twinned with immature cowardice.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• Despite being on the smaller side, there’s zero cowardice in his game.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2020
• Their reluctance, or cowardice, is a consequence of the complete lack of proof.
  — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• This shameless act of cowardice and hate is designed to get attention and divide us.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 13 Nov. 2022
• What bothers me more than anything is the cowardice of people who harass and threaten my wife and my children.
  — Alice Park, Time, 20 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024