cowardly in the PONS Dictionary

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Despite being slightly cowardly, they are willing to fight for what is right.
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Trying to disarm his men, he wrote, would be cowardly, and impossible to enforce.
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At some points he is quite cowardly and is surprised by almost anything that involves magic.
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He is often described as extremely unreliable, immature and cowardly, due to his actions.
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They felt that pressure from patrons on tenants was legitimate and that a secret ballot was simply unmanly and cowardly.
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Shaggy is a cowardly slacker more interested in eating than solving mysteries.
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He was gentle by nature, cowardly and double-faced.
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The oak puts up a heroic fight and, after it falls, condemns the willow's conduct as mean and cowardly.
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He was willing even to allow a journalist to spend eighty-five days in jail in a most cowardly act to avoid telling the truth.
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Cowardly, selfish, grasping, suspicious, and vengeful, he seemed almost incapable of any perception of the commonweal.
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