Someone who is acting cowardly is showing no courage. A politician who is afraid to tell the truth about his shadowy past can be described as cowardly.
Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
Adjective
lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
a.
Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful;
pusillanimous; spiritless.
a.
Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences;
befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.
adv.
In the manner of a coward.
Cowardly
The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle.2.
The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face.
Cowardly
Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
In the manner of a coward.
Usage Examples
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
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Other Usage ExamplesStupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
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