meaning of cowardly
1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
2. Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.
3. In the manner of a coward.
4. lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P. B. Shelley
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