| 单词 | cowardly |
| 释义 | cow·ard·ly I. II. < cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then — P.B.Shelley > < if you want to make charges, make them openly. I will not listen to cowardly hints — Sinclair Lewis > Synonyms: < a timid and cowardly man, who, according to one account, now surrendered Lothian to King Malcolm for fear that he might avenge the victories won over him by his brother — E.A.Freeman > < you are an incompetent cowardly rascal, sir! damn me if you're not! are you afraid of a crowd of bloody savages whilst you have arms in your hands — C.B.Nordhoff & J.M.Hall > < you laughed in my face as you are trying to laugh now, only your coward heart cannot keep your lips from twitching — A. Conan Doyle > pusillanimous connotes abjectness and contemptibility < I lived in a continual indefinite pining fear; tremulous, pusillanimous, apprehensive of I knew not what — Thomas Carlyle > poltroon, uncommon as an adjective, suggests complete cowardice < we had to make a show of impotence, which gave them to understand that the Arabs were too poltroon to cut the line near Maan and keep it cut — T.E.Lawrence > craven implies extreme defeatism and complete lack of resistance < your prayers will do more for me … than the swords of the craven sycophants would have done had they remained true — Alfred Tennyson > < a man whom a craven fear had made insensible to shame — T.B.Macaulay > dastardly is used in references to situations and personalities blending utter cowardice with the treacherous or outrageous < since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th — F.D.Roosevelt > < they'll spare the women; but my man tells me they have taken an oath to give no quarter to the men — the dastardly cowards — W.M.Thackeray > recreant, currently more common in the meaning of apostate, implies abject lack of resistance < when I was bewildered and recreant and was inclined to go back upon all my fiercest convictions — Victoria Sackville-West > |
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