cowardice• Her family would be appalled at her cowardice.• The thin man complained and continued to argue but no-one took notice but Michael, who growled tersely at his cowardice.• I guess I have avoided it like the plague, without much wanting to admit my cowardice.• It would be an act of cowardice to avoid the debate.• His meditations are interrupted by two figures from his past, who remind him of separate acts of cowardice and inhumanity.• In fact, Roy disdains the cowardice of anyone who plays the easier shot.
Origincowardice
(1300-1400)Old Frenchcoardise, from coart; → COWARD
ADJECTIVE | VERB + COWARDICE | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤moral, political道義上的/政治上的懦弱◇It is an act of moral cowardice for a society to neglect its poor.對於一個社會來說,忽視窮人是道義上懦弱的一種表現。VERB + COWARDICE➤show表現出怯懦▸➤accuse sb of指責某人膽小PHRASES➤an act of cowardice, cowardice in the face of the enemy怯懦行為;臨敵而懼◇Any soldier displaying cowardice in the face of the enemy was shot.所有臨陣懼敵的士兵都被槍斃了。