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词汇 cowedly
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释义 cowedly
adverb
uk /ˈkaʊ.ɪd.li/ us /ˈkaʊ.ɪd.li/
in a way that shows that you are doing something because you have been frightened by threats or violence:
She looked at the floor and spoke cowedly.
The frightened villagers reluctantly but cowedly turned and left.
Finally they began to protest, not just quietly and cowedly, but in numbers that were too big to ignore.
He sat quietly between his daughters, glancing at them cowedly from time to time.
During this period the workers began to rise up against people they'd cowedly called "sir" all their lives.
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