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Meanings of cowardly act in English

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Usage of cowardly act in English
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No one can tell what suffering that one cowardly act cost me.
Scottish sketches
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RELATED: History won't forget Tony Abbott's cowardly act Abbott's hopeless in this format.
News.com.au
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But this cowardly act of treason was not to go unpunished.
Joan of Naples / Celebrated Crimes
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This is probably the most cowardly act of the cowardly boss, wrote Wyse.
BBC
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Who wears it is incapable of a cowardly act or an ignoble one.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
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He feels that his whole world is crashing because of his cowardly act.
The new yorker
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Targeting peacekeepers like this is not only a cowardly act, it achieves nothing.
Reuters
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Yet only months ago she had committed a heinous, cowardly act by murdering Orry.
Navigators of Dune
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Mr Abbott's decision not to vote has been called a " cowardly act".
News.com.au
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The latter had commenced the hostilities by a sudden and cowardly act of treason.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
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It has always been considered a cowardly act to attack one weaker than ourselves.
Holidays at Roselands / A Sequel to Elsie Dinsmore
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He knew that his friend was no coward, but flight was a cowardly act.
The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775...
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The shooter had spared the women because he'd considered murdering them a cowardly act.
A Brewing Storm
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You all chose to participate in a cowardly act that has brought us here today.
Radio NZ
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A more cowardly act couldn't be imagined than this.
Air Service Boys over the Atlantic; Or, The Longest Flight on Re...
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It is a cowardly act, son Omar said.
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