cowardly

cowardly
    adj 1: lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted;
           "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
           [syn: {cowardly}, {fearful}] [ant: {brave}, {courageous}]
    

Cowardly \Cow"ard*ly\, a.
   1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful;
      pusillanimous; spiritless.
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            The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences;
      befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly
      malignity. --Macaulay.
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            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.
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Cowardly \Cow"ard*ly\, adv.
   In the manner of a coward. --Spenser.
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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