Adjective:

கோழைத்தனமான,

cowardly's Usage Examples:

Tender-hearted he might be in practice; but toleration he declares synonymous with "cowardly indulgence and false compasssion.

Elizabeth, fearless almost to a fault in face of physical danger, constant in her confidence even after discovery of her narrow escape from the poisoned bullets of household conspirators, was cowardly even to a crime in face of subtler and more complicated peril.

How can I be so confident that the television ' supernaturalists ' are ordinary conjurers, just because ordinary conjurers can replicate their tricks?All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be pre-emptively put to death.

He is cowardly in war, and on one occasion was shut up for years in a huge brazen pot.

The young prince alone rose to the height of the occasion, and set his face against such cowardly counsels, and he had the enthusiastic support of the great majority of the people.

In Homer he is one of the best and bravest of the heroes, and the favourite of Athena, whereas in later legend he is cowardly and deceitful.

All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be pre-emptively put to death.

It was applied to those who advocated a policy of "cowardly moderation," and feuillantisme was associated with aristocratic in the mouths of the sansculottes.

Some vaguely sane part of her mind protested that it was a cowardly thing to do, but panic had the upper hand.

"The natural consequence was that these men to the number of 30,000 flocked to the camp of Alaric, clamouring to be led against their cowardly enemies.

It roused one of the fits of wild rage to which he was not unfrequently liable; he burst out into ejaculations of wrath, and cursed the cowardly idle servants who suffered their master to be made the laughing-stock of a low-born priest.

The burning in her eyes had little to do with the creek water, and after such a cowardly display, she didn't want him to catch her crying.

This bad faith, however, is a cowardly shirking of responsibility.

Synonyms:

poor-spirited, cowardice, afraid, fearful, poltroon, chickenhearted, craven, pusillanimous, recreant, faint, lily-livered, yellow, cowardliness, white-livered, timid, dastardly, dastard, unmanly, yellow-bellied, funky, chicken, fainthearted, faint-hearted, caitiff, ignoble,

Antonyms:

courage, bold, brave, unafraid, noble,