Definition of cowards

"cowards" in the noun sense

1. coward

a person who shows fear or timidity

2. Coward, Noel Coward, Sir Noel Pierce Coward

English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)

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Quotations for cowards

Cowards are cruel. [ Proverb ]

None but cowards lie. [ Murphy ]

The crime of cowards. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Cowards have no luck. [ Elizabeth Kulman ]

Liars and wits are cowards. [ Proverb ]

A plague of all cowards, I say. [ William Shakespeare ]

Necessity makes even cowards brave. [ Proverb ]

Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain.
And make men giddy, proud and vain;
By this the fool commands the wise;
The noble with the base complies;
The sot assumes the role of wit.
And cowards make the base submit. [ Butler ]

Guilty consciences make men cowards. [ Vanbrugh ]

All men would be cowards if they durst. [ Earl of Rochester ]

Weak men and cowards are generally wily. [ Proverb ]

Necessity can make even cowards valiant. [ J. Hall ]

Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency. [ Swift ]

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity. [ Massinger ]

What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! [ Duke of Wellington ]

God will not make Himself manifest to cowards. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk. [ William Shakespeare ]

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards. [ Thomas Guthrie ]

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. [ Proverb ]

Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. [ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar ]

It is only in little matters that men are cowards. [ W. H. Herbert ]

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth - the cowards! [ Joaquin Miller ]

Cowards run the greatest danger of any men in a battle. [ Proverb ]

It is the misfortune of worthy people that they are cowards. [ Voltaire ]

Cowards are made to be trampled on, unless their wit cover them. [ Proverb ]

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. [ Gay ]

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. [ William Shakespeare ]

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. [ Queen Elizabeth ]

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned. [ Schiller ]

One of the greatest misfortunes of worthy people is that they are cowards. [ Voltaire ]

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage. [ Lavater ]

Conscience is but a word that cowards use. Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. [ Johnson ]

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law of the world, and are afraid of the world's tongue. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled at a strong mind; but common men are cowards, and dread an empty laugh. [ Tupper ]

All mankind is one of these two cowards - either to wish to die when he should live, or live when he should die. [ Sir Robert Howard ]

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. [ Bovee ]

Some are brave men one day and cowards another, as great captains have often told me, from their own experience and observation. [ Sir W. Temple ]

There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood. [ Aaron Hill ]

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. [ George Herbert ]

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Reflection makes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment. [ Hazlitt ]

cowards in Scrabble®

The word cowards is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters cowards:

COWARDS
(102 = 52 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word cowards

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COWARDS
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COWARDS
(66 = 16 + 50)
COWARDS
(65 = 15 + 50)
COWARDS
(65 = 15 + 50)
COWARDS
(64 = 14 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In cowards

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(102 = 52 + 50)
COWARDS
(101 = 51 + 50)
COWARDS
(98 = 48 + 50)
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cowards in Words With Friends™

The word cowards is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters cowards:

COWARDS
(125 = 90 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

cowards

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word cowards

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(125 = 90 + 35)
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(101 = 66 + 35)
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COWARDS
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COWARDS
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In cowards

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(125 = 90 + 35)
COWARDS
(101 = 66 + 35)
COWARDS
(95 = 60 + 35)
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(91 = 56 + 35)
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Words within the letters of cowards

2 letter words in cowards (8 words)

6 letter words in cowards (2 words)

7 letter words in cowards (1 word)

cowards + 2 blanks (3 words)

Words containing the sequence cowards

Words that start with cowards (1 word)

Words with cowards in them (1 word)

Words that end with cowards (1 word)

Word Growth involving cowards

Shorter words in cowards

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ar war ward coward

ar war ward wards

Longer words containing cowards

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