Sentence Examples
Far from being a national icon, Bonaparte is a weakling, a coward, a sluggard, and an ignoramus. |
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In reality, its just one more time that you will show that you are simply an unprincipled coward. |
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Elissa scolded him, calling him a coward, and upbraiding him for not showing backbone. |
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He knew they were branding him a coward, a bleeding heart, or a weakling, but he didn't care what the public thought of him. |
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His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward. |
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But, when officers confronted Parker, he proved to be a craven coward who literally pulsed with guilt. |
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If you use it then you will likely to be perceived as brave or the opposite of coward or frail. |
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The reasons and personalities behind the calumniation of him as a coward for nearly four years would surely be newsworthy. |
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By the way, this is totally a relationship question because I'm attracted to athletic, outdoorsy guys, but I'm a physical coward. |
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He's in love with her but is too much of a coward to leave Vanessa, who supports him financially. |
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By not reaching out to the victim's families initially in her work she was accused of being a coward. |
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Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended. |
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Being a big coward myself, I think I'd feign an injury rather than be on a team that has to face this Argentinan side. |
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A man of honor, a man of undeniable courage has been depicted as a craven coward by these memos. |
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Better to die of frostbite in that group of young guns than be branded a coward. |
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So go stand on your feet like a man, or whine like the yellow coward that you are. |
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No doubt he is just a yellow-bellied coward who simply wanted to have his letter published. |
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Only a yellow-bellied coward like you would need to gather a gang of six lackeys just to take me on. |
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Aidan had lost count how many times he'd cried himself to sleep in order to escape the pain that he was too coward to relieve himself of. |
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I try and try to become strong, but in the end, I am still the same coward I have always been. |
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This type was held up to ridicule and made a coward as well as a rodomont, as in the circumstances was only natural. |
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We were always discussing that he is a coward man, that he will not fight for his life, that he will not fight for what he believes in. |
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She heard that her son had been a coward and unworthy of her, and when he arrived, she made away with him. |
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She just didn't want to put up with the little brat even if it meant making herself out to be a coward or a crybaby, whichever way they took it. |
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He was corrupt to his core, a liar, a megalomaniac, a misogynist, a bully and, like most bullies, a coward. |
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Still addressing me with tearful insults and telling me that I was a coward, she irrupted in the living room with a large knife in her hands. |
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Surely everyone must have been able to hear the erratic pounding of her coward heart. |
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He is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward. |
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Zeph was definitely not the wimpy, useless, weak coward that he had originally seemed and she found herself almost inexplicably drawn to him. |
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To me he is false, a bluffer, a hypocrite, a sectarian, a coward and an opportunist. |
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She had run out again, like a coward, and was glad for that. |
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Hill advised him not to, saying that if he did so, the cadets would regard him as a coward. |
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He was ultimately a coward, and he took no pleasure in his victims fighting back. |
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They told me he was a recreant and a coward, but I knew it was false. |
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Jerry wants Rocky to die a slithering, wailing, yellow-bellied coward. |
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I hesitated outside, listening to the spooky sounds of the pigeons roosting under the roof, but my dinner companions called me a coward and yanked open the door. |
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He knows battle only through schoolbooks and soldiers' stories, and fears the possible ridicule of his peers, should he be deemed a coward by running from battle. |
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No, because the miserable coward wouldn't even give his name! |
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You're a taxpayer-funded bludger, coward, tyrant-appeaser and liar. |
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I only wish I had the nerve to try some of the more hair-raising pastimes enjoyed by some of our older citizens, but am far too much of a coward and layabout! |
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But when it came down to the nitty-gritty, he showed what a coward he was. |
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We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. |
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Now is the time to do the right thing before you cross the line, because if you do hurt her, you will be hunted down like the coward you are, and you'll pay. |
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And in the end, he himself was revealed to be a miserable coward. |
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I am nothing but a coward who is too afraid to cruise the sea. |
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Or do you think the gutless coward has sex-changed himself into obscurity? |
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Trouble is, our 'hero' is an alcoholic coward a million miles from his on-screen persona as a hardass zombie slayer. |
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Forbidden insults have included coward, guttersnipe, hooligan, rat, stool pigeon, swine, and traitor. |
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Or he could have been a coward, lashing out at me for some online slight. |
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Without being a coward, Jean's courage is not unimpregnable, and therefore plays he not the swaggerer amongst the patients. |
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If you think you're in pain now, just wait until you see what tomorrow brings, you gizzardless coward. |
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It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is. |
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And thus in war and battle, in which the brave find glory, even the coward will find safety. |
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The barrel-chested Lahorites were so full of hatred against the wily Indian enemy that they wielded batons and sticks and reached the war-front to face the coward enemy. |
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Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears. |
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The play, often considered to be a comedy, reverses traditional views on events of the Trojan War and depicts Achilles as a coward, Ajax as a dull, unthinking mercenary, etc. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
No, caroche does not remember his brother Ba'tiste the fighter, as brave as caroche is a coward! |
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If the first thing happened, you'd have been a coward the rest of your life. |
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Will it satisfy you if I own that I am a shirker, a skrim-shanker, and a coward? |
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Insist that you are no shirker, no coward, that you are brave even to daring. |
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I am not a coward, said Maya, I dont 118 think I am, but what you say makes me creepy. |
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Fairfield was no coward, but his nerves had begun to go under the strain of the suspense. |
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As when one strikes a cur with a whip, so to your fair, false face I call you liar and coward. |
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Have I told you that I thought him a skulker, a coward hiding to escape warfare? |
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The coward is not the man who is afraid, but the man who allows his fear to overmaster him. |
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Bromfield immediately stabbed Ledyard with his own sword, and the hero fell dead at the feet of the coward and assassin. |
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Nor would he come forth, for all that Sir Bors called him coward and recreant. |
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She had intimated that he was a coward in not seeing his fiancee and telling her the truth. |
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Leverett, always a coward, had pursued his devious and larcenous way through the world, always in deadly fear of sink holes. |
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All that you have demanded of me I have done, but I refuse to take flight like a coward. |
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The Lepcha is an arrant coward, but a born naturalist, and has a name for every shrub and plant in Sikkim. |
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But the fear and confidence of the coward or foolhardy or madman, on the contrary, are base? |
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Courage that reckons so bates its own worth Till a coward might disport it. |
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All that is now doubtful concerning this man is, whether he was a coward or a traitor. |
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What would his father think of him if he knew what a mean-spirited coward he was? |
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It is only the whippersnapper, the sneak, the coward out of doors who is a tyrant at home. |
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The only truly Russian personage is the young lover, weak-willed and irresolute, who lives a coward in his own esteem. |
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I have nothing left to fear, and methinks I am ten times more a coward than ever. |
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You will perceive that Copperhead Camp was no place for a coward or a bluffer or a bully. |
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A coward is generally a bully, for he who is chicken-hearted may naturally be fowl-mouthed. |
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The governor, a coward or a traitor, rendered thee to the rebellious crowd. |
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I know you are no coward or weakling, but he could throw you over the wall. |
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The coward would not have the courage to contradict her, but he would know if he were lying! |
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I believe the rascal is a coward, though he pretends to be in love forsooth. |
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You have been telling men that I am a coward and a four-flusher. |
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He's a coward and a deserter and a drunkard and a frightener of women! |
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Fleming's Wilson was a coward, bull-headed and abusive, a mean-spirited commander-in-chief who was obsessed with keeping his grip on power. |
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And, besides, he felt like a coward who had shirked his duty. |
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Why shouldst thou lay on me the name of coward, who am yet but a child? |
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He himself was no coward, no shrinker from the great issues. |
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Emily, I guess you think I'm the silliest old coward that ever was. |
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How many a coward stab would be given in the shadow of that immunity! |
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Perhaps he was just a coward like Jacobi or a beaten bully like Shad. |
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You intend cutting your surcingle and running away, little coward? |
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Don't you call me a coward, you dirty, ear-ringed Levantine thief! |
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Just now thou wert but a coward, and now thou art a manichee. |
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Perhaps I am a coward, but I mislike these roving night-hands. |
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He is only coward in this, that he dares not do an unhandsome action. |
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For love will convert the veriest coward into an inspired hero. |
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Truly, thou art a fit tool for this coward Sheriff of Nottingham. |
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She looked at me as she flitted by, and though I may say I'm no coward, that cold immovable look froze the blood in my veins. |
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I have seen enough of you to know that you are a bully and coward. |
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Nay, his was no coward blood that would surrender to caitiff churls. |
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Minnie's face was not pleasant to see, for a coward detected at the moment of wrongdoing is not an object of delight. |
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Well, in any event, they would not call him a slacker or a coward. |
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A man cannot then practice ahimsa and be a coward at the same time. |
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He was an arrant coward like the most of his downtrodden race. |
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In Ithaca was a beggar named Irus, gluttonous and big-boned but a coward. |
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He knows all about Mr. blacksnake and that really he is a coward. |
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I asked, feeling at the moment a contempt for this blaspheming coward. |
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Of course, Mwanga was a coward as well as a cruel and bloodstained despot. |
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Or the first threat of a boaster or coward is always the worst. |
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The dynamiter is a coward who is even more contemptible than a boodler. |
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It was nothing but the vain boast of a brute, a coward and a braggadocio! |
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I am no coward, but what to make of this head-peddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension. |
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At any rate, I won't be coward enough to try to hide it from her. |
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I denounce this person as a liar, and impeach him as a coward. |
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He's a beastly coward I think, and he told me once he'd never let off a revolver in his life. |
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Though no coward, he has never yet shown any part of him but his back, which rises in a long sharp ridge. |
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This eddo speaks great words, but he is also a great coward. |
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I'll believe you are a coward, for yourself, but not a cowardly betrayer of your best friend. |
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Her Ladyship, for an esprit fort, is the greatest coward that I ever saw. |
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Like every extremely selfish person she was a coward in her soul. |
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Here is a coward named Falstaff, and Shakespeare puts him into battle. |
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You ought to be ashamed of yourself, you big coward, scabbing on honest men. |
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Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward. |
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Nay, not a whit do I, for thou didst strike him foully and like a coward! |
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I want Riggs shown up as the coward, braggart, four-flush that he is. |
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I am not to blame that the Minister is vacillating, a coward, dense, dilatory, and has all bad qualities. |
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Conscience had made a coward of me, and yet what reason had I to disbelieve the worst? |
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But between the two, Cummings was the coward, psychologically at least. |
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Damon was not a coward, but the giant iguana was not pleasant to look at. |
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This caused the Frenchman to bethink him of playing the coward. |
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I have preyed on my own morbid coward heart, and it has preyed on me. |
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My Pappy always said a coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but one. |
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Celina's husband was a fool, a coward, and a pig, and to prove it to her, Victor intended to hammer his head into a jelly the next time he encountered him. |
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That you take advantage of your kingship to say what you would never dare say were you not king, brands me not a traitor, though it does brand you a coward. |
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