[Ads-l] cowardous, adj.

[Jonathan Lighter]

1914 Bristol (Tenn.) Herald Courier (Feb. 21) 8: The guilty and
cowardous culprit pays the penalty.

1950 Herald-Journal (Logan, Ut.) (Jan. 28) 4: A continuously cowardous and
unethical onslaught.

JL

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 8:03 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> NBC News correspondent Ali Arouzi in Kyiv yesterday:
>
> "[The Russians] do the cowardous thing and hit the civilians here."
>
> 1935 Frontier (O'Neill, Neb.) (July 11) 8: Venal, cowardous, treacherous.
>
> 1997 Detroit News (Apr. 25) 1:  Hartzler cited a file in McVeigh's
> sister's computer marked "ATF READ"...."Die, you spineless,
> cowardous bastards!"
>
> 2016 Staten Island Advance (NYC) (Oct. 4) 7: "I'm proud of that flag..,"
> LoBaido said. "It's so lazy and cowardous to sit on the field...and
> disrespect the national anthem and the flag like that."
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 9:36 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Not transcription errors.
>>
>> I heard them live and loud and jotted them down immediately.
>>
>> JL
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 9:33 AM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If these were TV programs, how do we know what the speakers were SAYING?
>>> These appear to be transcription errors, possibly attributable to
>>> nameless
>>> interns at the stations.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 8:23 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Rep. Madeleine Dean (D.-Pa.) on Deadline White House the other day:
>>> >
>>> > "Mr. McCarthy is calculating. He is cowardous."
>>> >
>>> > JL
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 7:25 AM Jonathan Lighter <
>>> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R.-Ill.) on Morning Joe today:
>>> > >
>>> > > "That was a cowardous vote for those twenty-one Republicans."
>>> > >
>>> > > Prob. orig. sugg. by a misapprehension of "That is cowardice!"
>>> > >
>>> > > JL
>>> > >
>>> > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 7:04 AM Jonathan Lighter <
>>> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>> > > wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >> I doubt the EME usage ever went away entirely. The homophone
>>> "cowardice"
>>> > >> encourages it, and it may sound smarter to some than "cowardly."
>>> > >>
>>> > >> JL
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >> =
>>> > >>
>>> > >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:50 PM Barretts Mail <
>>> mail.barretts at gmail.com>
>>> > >> wrote:
>>> > >>
>>> > >>> If you go to the end of the hits, Google says, on page 16, that it
>>> has
>>> > >>> omitted similar entries. If you have those displayed anyway, it
>>> ends on
>>> > >>> page 33 with 326 hits.
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
>>> > >>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> > On 4 Feb 2021, at 14:05, Jonathan Lighter <
>>> wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>>> > >>> wrote:
>>> > >>> >
>>> > >>> > And almost 9,000 hits for plain "cowardous."
>>> > >>> >
>>> > >>> > JL
>>> > >>> >
>>> > >>> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 5:04 PM Jonathan Lighter <
>>> > >>> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com <mailto:wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>>
>>> > >>> > wrote:
>>> > >>> >
>>> > >>> >> OED has this "obsolete" syn. for "cowardly" from 1480-1608.
>>> > >>> >>
>>> > >>> >> Noah Webster had it in 1828, with the note "Not used."
>>> > >>> >>
>>> > >>> >> 2021 Rep. Barbara Lee (D.-Calif.) on_Deadline White House_
>>> (MSNBC
>>> > TV)
>>> > >>> >> (Feb. 4):  I believe in many respects that the Republicans
>>> acted in
>>> > a
>>> > >>> >> cowardous manner. ... They are spineless and acting in a
>>> cowardous
>>> > >>> way.
>>> > >>> >>
>>> > >>> >> Google reveals 300 hits for "a cowardice [sic] manner" and bare
>>> > >>> handful
>>> > >>> >> for "a cowardous [sic] way."
>>> > >>> >>
>>> > >>> >> JL
>>> > >>>
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