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cowardlily

cowardlily adverb: in a cowardly manner.

Adverb

cowardlily (comparative more cowardlily, superlative most cowardlily)

  1. (rare) In 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

Forms of cowardlily

comparativemore cowardlily
superlativemost cowardlily

Origin of cowardlily

From cowardly + -ly.

Questions about cowardlily

What does cowardlily mean?
Cowardlily means in a cowardly manner.
What part of speech is cowardlily?
Cowardlily is an adverb.

Words near cowardlily in the dictionary

  1. cowardized
  2. cowardizes
  3. cowardizing
  4. cowardlier
  5. cowardliest
  6. cowardlily
  7. cowardliness
  8. cowardlinesses
  9. cowardly
  10. cowardly lion
  11. cowardly lions

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