cowardliness

  • 61pusillanimity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Ignoble lack of courage: chickenheartedness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint heartedness, funk, unmanliness. Slang: gutlessness, yellowness, yellow streak. See FEAR …

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  • 62unmanliness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Ignoble lack of courage: chickenheartedness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, das tardliness, faint heartedness, funk, pusillanimity. Slang: gutlessness, yellowness, yellow streak. See FEAR. 2. The quality of… …

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  • 63yellow streak — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Slang. Ignoble lack of courage: chickenheart edness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint heartedness, funk, pusillanimity, unmanliness. Slang: gutlessness, yellowness. See FEAR …

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  • 64yellowness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Slang. Ignoble lack of courage: chickenheart edness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint heartedness, funk, pusillanimity, unmanliness. Slang: gutlessness, yellow streak. See FEAR …

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  • 65cowardly — late 14c. (adv.); 1550s (adj.), from COWARD (Cf. coward) + LY (Cf. ly). The adverb is much older than the adjective: Yit had I levir do what I may Than here to dye thus cowerdelye [ Le Morte d Arthur, c.1450] An O.E. word for cowardly was earg,… …

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  • 66dastardliness — das·tard·li·ness || dæstÉ™rdlɪnɪs / tÉ™d n. meanness; cowardliness …

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  • 67gutlessness — n. cowardliness, lack of courage …

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  • 68nervelessness — nÉœrvlɪsnɪs / nɜːv n. lack of nervousness, composure, calmness; feebleness, state of lacking strength, weakness; cowardliness …

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  • 69pusillanimity — pu·sil·la·nim·i·ty || ‚pjuːsɪlÉ™ nɪmÉ™tɪ n. cowardliness, timidity, fearfulness …

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  • 70recreance — rekrɪəns n. fearfulness, cowardliness; disloyalty, unfaithfulness …

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