(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) An unprincipled coward with the backbone of an amoeba."
(2) But cowardly useful idiots of Warwick have banned @MaryamNamazie.” On Sunday night the union released a statement reversing the decision, which it stated had gone against normal procedures.
(3) On Wednesday she declared that if Sir Gideon had sent Chloe Smith unprotected on to Newsnight, then he was "cowardly as well as arrogant".
(4) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(5) But in recent years, directors have sought out the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood ( There Will Be Blood ), the Chemical Brothers ( Hanna ) and Nick Cave ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ).
(6) Africans yelled at the police, "Cowards" and "Kill the white men."
(7) The only real black spot was that a cowardly Britain stood by in the 1930s and allowed Hitler and Mussolini to help General Franco win the Spanish civil war , pushing it into dictatorship and encouraging Nazi Germany to launch the second world war.
(8) It resulted in a royal command performance, a big hit and an Oscar win for Coward.
(9) It’s just one in a long line of cowardly and slimy moves by Ryan, who is really just Trump in a more aesthetically appealing wrapper.
(10) Though he strongly disapproved of much of what later took shape as "New Labour", which he saw, among other things, as historically cowardly, he was without question the single most influential intellectual forerunner of Labour's increasingly iconoclastic 1990s revisionism.
(11) I don’t know who you think you are, you cowardly, small-minded xenophobe who did this, but you do not speak for the community,” he added.
(12) An emotional Obama ran through a litany of Isis human-rights abuses, from rape to enslavement, calling them “cowardly acts of violence.” In a vague reference to Americans held captive by Isis or near its path in Iraq, Obama said the US would “do everything we can to protect our people,” a formulation that has preceded US military action in the past.
(13) Erase even more, you cowardly regime,” Abo Bakr wrote on a wall in a message to the whitewashers.
(14) With Veep , rather than striving young idealists, you have cowardly egomaniacs and bunglers who are involved in endless arse-covering exercises.
(15) Some of the strongest criticism came from Travis Tygaart, the head of Usada, who called the cyber attacks “cowardly and despicable” and reiterated that the athletes named had done nothing wrong.
(16) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(17) With these unmanned craft, governments can fight a coward's war, a god's war, harming only the unnamed.
(18) Photograph: Reuters Elizabeth Bourgault, a runner who survived the blasts with injuries, also called Tsarnaev a coward.
(19) Conceived as a "response" to Ben Affleck's Oscar-nominated take on the 1979 hostage crisis, it promises a tale of cowardly US diplomats who are treated with kindness and eventually delivered to safety by their Iranian hosts.
(20) "I think there is only one explanation about this: that the family has been the victim of repressive measures, which are cruel and cowardly."
Nerveless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of nerves.
(a.) Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.
Example Sentences:
(1) I just thought it was a little beyond me this year.” On those hazy days in London Ennis-Hill had blown away the opposition with a nerveless and spectacularly quick hurdles on the opening morning of competition that left her cruising to victory.
(2) HU-P animals resemble nerveless animals in their lack of behavioural responses but they contain about 2% nerve cells.
(3) Southampton must be optimistic for the rest of the season too, after nervelessly outplaying Liverpool on their own turf.
(4) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
(5) Scott Murray Benteke scored a spectacular bicycle kick at Old Trafford, tucked away the most nerveless penalty of the season at Crystal Palace, and was one of only three players to score a winner against Leicester.
(6) Cabaye’s retake to the top corner was nerveless after his first effort was disallowed for encroachment by the young man whose ongoing silliness would soon lead to an early exit.
(7) Just before 7pm, when the Wolverhampton-born gymnast Kristian Thomas landed the final tumble of a highly charged and nerveless routine, the North Greenwich Arena (as we call it for the Games) filled with the kind of national excitement for which it was conceived: Britain's men had won its first team gymnastics medal for exactly a century.
(8) Both a nerveless goalscorer and the hare that made an entire team run behind him.
(9) Accepting a pass from Geremi, who had collected Gabbidon's poor clearance, he hit an angled shot that was deflected by Collins's boot into the path of Crespo, who provided a nerveless finish from close range.
(10) Owen Farrell's nerveless goal-kicking and another Charlie Hodgson charge-down did the job.
(11) Upon hand feeding, some HU-P animals will recover but most will produce nerveless buds.
(12) What little Matic and Mikel let through, John Terry or Gary Cahill were generally managing to mop up, until with one sublime turn and purposeful sprint towards goal, Sterling split the centre-backs and came up with a nerveless finish to give Liverpool a lifeline.
(13) Nerveless animals show broad tentacle distribution patterns with increased means and variances.
(14) His 85th-minute penalty provoked a dispute with Jordan Henderson on the pitch and a rebuke from Steven Gerrard sitting in a television studio, but all that mattered was that it was nerveless, accurate and broke Besiktas’ resilience in the Europa League .
(15) With the half-time substitute Mertens and Eden Hazard finally injecting some urgency, the pair combined on the counterattack and the Napoli player nervelessly slotted home the winner.
(16) You’d walk past him in the street without taking a second look, but he is Virgin Galactic’s chief test pilot and therefore possesses the kind of nerveless courage that is the preserve of a tiny fraction of humanity.
(17) Tom Daley delivered a nerveless performance on Saturday night to claim an extraordinary bronze medal in the 10m platform dive .
(18) And Graham does it – splitting the uprights nervelessly to win the game for New Orleans.
(19) Another was blown away by a nerveless drive volley from midcourt.
(20) Neverless hydra produced by hydroxyurea resemble nerveless animals produced by other techniques, in their behavioural, morphological and developmental properties.