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cowardlily

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Etymology

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From cowardly +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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cowardlily (comparative more cowardlily, superlative most cowardlily)

  1. (rare) In a cowardly manner.
    • 1842, Gerald Griffin, The Duke of Monmouth, page 23:
      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, []