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cowardly 音標拼音: [k'ɑʊɚdli] a. 懦弱的,卑怯的,膽小的 懦弱的,卑怯的,膽小的 cowardly adj 1: lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint- hearted; " cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P. B. Shelley [ synonym: { cowardly}, { fearful}] [ ant: { brave}, { courageous}] Cowardly \ Cow" ard* ly\, a. 1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. [ 1913 Webster] The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face. -- Burke. Syn: Timid; fearful; timorous; dastardly; pusillanimous; recreant; craven; faint- hearted; chicken- hearted; white- livered. [ 1913 Webster]
Cowardly \ Cow" ard* ly\, adv. In the manner of a coward. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 117 Moby Thesaurus words for " cowardly": abulic, afraid, anemic, asthenic, bashful, bloodless, caitiff, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowed, craven, dastardly, daunted, debilitated, diffident, dismayed, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, etiolated, faint, fainthearted, faintish, fearful, fearing, fearsome, feeble, feebleminded, flabby, flaccid, floppy, frail, frightened, funking, funky, gone, goosy, gutless, henhearted, imbecile, impotent, in fear, infirm, intimidated, invertebrate, jumpy, languid, languorous, lily- livered, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, milk- livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, namby- pamby, nerveless, nervous, overtimid, overtimorous, panic- prone, panicky, pigeonhearted, pithless, pliable, poltroon, poltroonish, pooped, powerless, pusillanimous, rabbity, recreant, rubbery, sapless, scared, scary, shaky, shivery, shrinking, shy, sinewless, sissified, sissy, skittery, skittish, slack, soft, spineless, spunkless, startlish, strengthless, timid, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger- happy, unhardened, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, vile, weak, weak- kneed, weak- minded, weak- willed, weakhearted, weakly, white- livered, worthless, yellow
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