| 词汇 | cowardly |
| 释义 | cowardly adjective disapprovinguk /ˈkaʊ.əd.li/ us /ˈkaʊ.ɚd.li/ (of a person) not at all brave and too eager to avoid danger, difficulty, or pain : He was too cowardly to give the order. When they criticize us anonymously they come across as cowardly. These are not cowardly people, but they are cautious. B2 (of an action) showing that someone is not at all brave and is too eager to avoid danger, difficulty, or pain: 怯懦地 This was a particularly brutal and cowardly attack.这是一次特别残忍和懦弱的攻击。 They are guilty of a cowardly failure to address the problem.他们因懦弱而未能解决问题，为此感到内疚。 It was cowardly not to own up to the mistake. Synonyms chickenchild's word cravenformaldisapproving fainthearted lily-liveredliterary pusillanimousformal timid weak-kneedinformaldisapproving yellow(NOT BRAVE)informal Related word coward They think we're weak and cowardly. Was he too decent to do it, or simply too cowardly? They tried to characterize him as a cowardly shirker of responsibility. He said he was the victim of a cowardly campaign of character assassination. I think it was a cowardly way for management to go about things. Their failure to ask tough questions and hold their leaders to account is cowardly in the extreme. Cowardly be afraid of your own shadowidiom bottle bottle out chicken chicken out fainthearted gutless lily-livered pantywaist pusillanimity spinelessness timid timidity timidly timorous unheroic weak-kneed wimp wimp out wimpy cowardly adverb old useliterarydisapproving in a way that shows someone is not at all brave and is too eager to avoid danger, difficulty, or pain: We will not retreat or act cowardly. Cowardly be afraid of your own shadowidiom bottle bottle out chicken chicken out fainthearted gutless lily-livered pantywaist pusillanimity spinelessness timid timidity timidly timorous unheroic weak-kneed wimp wimp out wimpy |
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