Cowardly Definition

kouərd-lē
adjective
cowardlier, cowardliest
Of or typical of a coward; shamefully fearful.
Webster's New World

Showing cowardice; lacking in courage; basely or weakly fearful.

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adverb
In the manner of a coward.
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Other Word Forms of Cowardly

Adjective

Base Form:
cowardly
Comparative:
cowardlier
Superlative:
cowardliest

Origin of Cowardly

  • From coward +‎ -ly.

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Cowardly Sentence Examples

  • He had behaved like a cowardly recruit who mutilates himself to escape military service.

  • He is cowardly in war, and on one occasion was shut up for years in a huge brazen pot.

  • Keaton, on the other hand, wasn't the least bit cowardly.

  • The covering of this savage but cowardly little night-prowler is a sort of short hair, not fur.

  • The young prince alone rose to the height of the occasion, and set his face against such cowardly counsels, and he had the enthusiastic support of the great majority of the people.

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