Noah Webster
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.