Meanings
adverbcowardlily (comparative more cowardlily, superlative most cowardlily)
comparative more cowardlily · superlative most cowardlily
- rareIn a cowardly manner.
Whenever I hear of some unhappy individual ungratefully and cowardlily yielding to the temptations of despair, and flinging away the existence which he fancied for him was now grown bare of promise, […]
1842, Gerald Griffin, The Duke of Monmouth, page 23
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cowardlily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cowardlily
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“cowardlily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cowardlily. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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