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"Lacking courage"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (COWARDLY).
Definitions
lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
Word origin
From Middle English *cowardly (adjective) and cowardly (adverb), equivalent to coward + -ly. Displaced native Old English earg.
Used in a sentence
“The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle.”
“1780, Edmund Burke, speech at The Guildhall, in Bristol The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face.”
“We will not ſteale vpon him cowardly, But giue him warning and more warriours.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Lacking courage”8 letters
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