cowardice

But when I look out over the crowd now, I also see that they are trapped—trapped by their cowardice.

In the end he told the general he should shoot himself for his cowardice.

But Boehner and the Republicans refused, completely out of cowardice and to spite Obama.

In the back of their patrol car, with her hands cuffed behind her, she mocks their cowardice.

“I think it comes from idiocy and cowardice,” said Whedon of the female superhero problem.

Admiral Byng was afterwards shot in England, on an unjust charge of cowardice in this affair.

Death, to do him justice, he had met with none of the cowardice he had vaunted, and consistently with his arid cynical soul.

All that a man could offer, who did not wish to be suspected of rank cowardice, he offered without reservation.

Cowardice prompted him to remain silent, and something which defied silence prompted him at last to talk.

It is not for weak beings, who enter into a composition with guilt, and cover selfishness and cowardice with the name of prudence.