1. (a.) Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

2. (a.) Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.

3. (adv.) In the manner of a coward.

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