Synonyms:
cowardice, cowardliness
Meaning: the trait of lacking courage
Usage examples
Write out a two-minute speech on "Confidence and Cowardice."
Anthony Dexter had seen enough of the world to recognise cowardice when he saw it, even in himself.
The knights of Cornwall are in ill repute in romance for their cowardice, and they exhibited it on this occasion.
Either from treachery or cowardice Andronicus Ducas, the officer who commanded the reserve, led his men off without fighting.
'A crime! a crime!' Only now I see clearly the imbecility of my cowardice, now that I have decided to face this superfluous disgrace.
No time can efface the cruel ideas of a man's own foolish conduct, or of affronts, which cowardice or impudence has brought upon him.
No cowardice then on your part, seeing the greatness of the issues at stake, and I will show that what I preach to others I can practise myself."
In an access of self-reproach he once declared that his character was comprised in one word--'poltroon!'" He showed neither timidity nor cowardice, however, in his devotion to truth.
But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate.
They justly considered that cowardice, meanness, levity, anxiety, impatience, folly, and many other qualities of the mind, might appear ridiculous and deformed, contemptible and odious, though independent of the will.