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Cowardly


COWARDLY, adjective

1. Wanting courage to face danger; timid; timorous; fearful; pusillanimous.

2. Mean; base; befitting a coward; as a cowardly action.

3. Proceeding from fear of danger; as cowardly silence.

COWARDLY, adverb In the manner of a coward; meanly; basely.