Cowardly

Definition: Cowardly

Cowardly

Adjective

1. Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley.

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Date "cowardly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Cowardly

Cowardice

Verb: quail; (fear); be cowardly; Adjective:, be a coward; Noun: funk; cower,skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away; (avoid); show, the white feather.

Adjective: coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate.

Irresolution

Weak, feeble-minded, frail; timid, wimpish, wimpy; cowardly; dough-faced; facile; pliant; (soft); unable to say "no", easy-going

Crosswords: Cowardly

A crevice in which to cower, only scuttling from the shadows to devour a victim already ensnared in your cowardly trap. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

You good people witnessed the cowardly murder of our beloved Sheriff Brady by Billy the Kid right over there. (Chisum; writing credit: Andrew J. Fenady)

Now that the Jewish mania for destruction has shown itself in the deeds of those aerial pirates even the weak and cowardly among us have realised that National Socialism is our peoples greatest and only hope. (Aimée & Jaguar; writing credit: Erica Fischer; Max F�rberböck)

Damn the levies man Cowardly blacks! (Zulu; writing credit: John Prebble;)

Oh blithery poop, my cowardly lobster. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Only the brave deserve the fair, but only rich, fat, cowardly merchants can afford same. (references; author: Chinese Proverb)

The Cowardly Way (1915)

Broncho Billy's Cowardly Brother (1915)

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Books

• Cowardly Capitalism: The Myth of The Global Financial Casino (reference)

• Cowardly Clyde (reference)

• No cowardly past : James J. Puthucheary : writings, poems, commentaries (reference)

• Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr (reference)

• Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures With Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and th (reference)

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They are strong and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and by consequence, insolent, abject, and cruel.

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Civil Liberties

Chile

In December the President of the Supreme Court brought charges against a talk show participant who, commenting on the case of a women who spent 3 years in prison for a crime for which she ultimately was absolved, accused the justice system of being immoral, cowardly, and corrupt. (references)

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Expression using "cowardly": in a cowardly fashion. Additional references.

Beginning with "cowardly": cowardly-looking.

Albanian

zemërlepur (lily livered, pusillanimous, weak-kneed, weak-spirited), lalash (chicken hearted, Craven, quitter, recreant, softy), frikacak (chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, Craven, dastard, dastardly, faint-heart, faint-hearted, funk, milk-livered, poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, scary, sneak, sneaking, white livered, yellow, yellowbellied, yellow-livered). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وضيع (contemptible, grubby, humble, inferior, low, low-grade, lowly, mean, menial, scabby, scaly, scruffy, scurvy, slavish, slight, snide, vile), ‏جدير بالازدراء (vile), ‏جبان (apprehensive, chicken, chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cur, faint, fearful, fearsome, funk, funky, heartless, lily livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, pusillanimous, scared, sheepish, shy, sissified, sissy, spiritless, timid, timorous, tremulous, unmanly, weak-kneed), ‏رعديد (poor spirited, pusillanimous, timid). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страхлив (chicken, chickenhearted, coward, dastardly, fainthearted, fearful, funky, hen-hearted, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, recreant, sissy, spiritless), малодушен (chickenhearted, hen-hearted, lily livered, poor spirited, pusillanimous, recreant, weak-kneed, white livered). (various references)

Chinese 

懦夫 (Coward). (various references)

Czech

zbabìle (faint-heartedly, in a cowardly fashion), zbabìlý (chicken hearted, Craven, faint-hearted, lily livered, milk-livered, spineless, white livered, yellow), bojácný (chicken hearted, fearful, nervous, pusillanimous, timid, weak-kneed). (various references)

Finnish

raukkamainen (dastardly), arkamainen (faint- hearted). (various references)

French

poltron (coward), lâche (coward), froussard (coward), de façon lâche. (various references)

German

feige (afraid, coward, Craven, cravenly, fainthearted, fig, funky, gutless, lily livered, pusillanimous, spineless, spinelessly, unmanly, yellow), feig (coward, craven, cravenly). (various references)

Greek 

άνανδροσ (coward, Craven, dastard, poltroon, recreant, unmanly), ανανδρώσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

פח�"� י (fearful, timorous, unmanly). (various references)

Hungarian

gyáván (abjectly, to crap out). (various references)

Italian

codardo (coward, Craven, dastard, funk, lily livered, recreant, weakling), vile (base, caitiff, dastard, filthy, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, low, mean, scurvy, sneaking, vile, worthless), vigliacco (caitiff, coward, dastard, fig, gutless, poltroon, sneak). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

卑劣 (base, foul play, mean). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょうし�" (anxiety, burning oneself, grief, heart failure, heartbreak, humble position, impatience, promotion, rising in rank, self-immolation, timid), ひれつ (base, foul play, mean), ふがいない (disappointing, spiritless, weak-minded, worthless), いくじのない (backboneless, spineless, timid, weak-kneed), � じゃく (coward, effeminate, effete, enervated, weak). (various references)

Korean 

비겁한. (various references)

Manx

faitagh (fearful, irresolute, shy, shy person, timid, timid person), cowartagh (craven, white-livered, yellow), cloartagh, aggleydagh (coward, timid, timorous). (various references)

Pig Latin

owardlycay

Portuguese

covardemente, covarde (caitiff, chicken-hearted, coward, craven, dastard, dastardly, faint-hearted, funk, funky, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksop, pusillanimous, recreant, scaramouch, slag, sneaking, white-livered, yellow-livered). (various references)

Romanian

cu fricã (timorously), temãtor (fearful, pusillanimous, suspecting, suspicious, timid, timorous, yellow), mişelesc (dastardly, treacherous), mişel (caitiff, dastard, rascal, rascally, recreant, sneaking, villain), laş (base-spirited, chicken hearted, coward, Craven, cur, dastard, dastardly, faint-hearted, funk, hen-hearted, invertebrate, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, pigeon-hearted, poltroon, recreant, sneak, sneaky, unmanly, white livered, yellow), fricos (apprehensive, caitiff, chicken hearted, coward, Craven, cur, dastard, eerie, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, funky, hare-hearted, hen-hearted, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, Patsi, pigeon-hearted, piker, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, shy, spiritless, timid, timorous, white livered, yellow), în mod laş. (various references)

Russian 

трусливый (chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, craven, dastardly, fainthearted, faint-hearted, funky, hen-hearted, knock-kneed, lily livered, lily-livered, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, poor-spirited, recreant, sneaky, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow-livered), малодушный (chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, fainthearted, hen-hearted, pusillanimous, weak-kneed, weak-spirited, white livered, white-livered). (various references)

Scottish

meata (faint-hearted, soft), gealtach (a. cowardly), babhsganta, baosganta. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kukavički (caitiff, craven, dastardly, recreant, yellow, yellow-bellied). (various references)

Spanish

cobardemente (faint-heartedly), cobarde (chicken hearted, coward, craven, dastardly, faint-hearted, lily livered, pigeonhearted, piker, poltroon, quitter, recreant, timid, weak-kneed, weakling, yellow), rajón (braggart, lavish, tear, unreliable), gallego (freeloader, galician). (various references)

Swedish

feg (chicken, chickenhearted, coward, Craven, dastardly, faint-hearted, lily livered, recreant, timid, white livered, yellow). (various references)

Thai

ขี้ขลา�" (chicken, chickenhearted, chicken-hearted, coward, faint-hearted, lily-livered, pusillanimous, tame). (various references)

Turkish

yüreksizce, namert (poltroon), korkakça (faintheartedly, sneakingly), korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, scary, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), alçakça (abjectly, meanly, nefariously, rascally, sneakingly, unworthy), alçak (abandoned, abject, base, baseborn, blackguard, contemptible, dastardly, heel, humble, ignoble, lousy, low, low down, lowrise, misbegotten, nasty, nefarious, no good, rascally, ravisher, recreant, scoundrel, scoundrelly, short, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, sordid, squat, swab, swob, vile, villainous), ödlek (chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, fainthearted, hen-hearted, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, white livered, yellow dog). (various references)

Turkmen 

sarз, namart (coward). (various references)

Ukrainian

малодушно, малодушний (weak-hearted, weak-kneed, weak-spirited, white livered), легкодухо, легкодухий (chicken hearted, coward, weak-kneed), боягузливо, боягузливий (lily livered, niddering, recreant, sneaky, white livered, yellow, yellow-bellied, yellow-livered), боязко (bashfully, faint-heartedly, gingerly, nervously, shamefacedly). (various references)

Welsh

llwfr (timid), anw+raidd. (various references)

feminea, femineae, feminei, femineo, timida, timidae, timidi, timidis, timido, timidum, timidus. (various references)

earh. (various references)

Misspellings

"Cowardly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cowaedly, cowerdly, towardly. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: calory, coward, crawly, crowdy, drawly.

-3 letters: acold, carol, claro, clary, coaly, coral, cowry, crawl, crowd, dowry, drawl, lardy, lyard, rawly, rowdy, royal, waldo, woald, wordy, world.

-4 letters: acyl, alow, arco, aryl, awol, awry, calo, card, carl, clad, claw, clay, clod, cloy, coal, coda, cola, cold, coly, cord, cory, cowl, cowy, craw, crow, dory.