Cowardly
Cowardly adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Usage example: vile charges that were made in a cowardly, unsigned letter
Plucky
Plucky adjective - Showing courage.
Both words in one sentence
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Foil: The cynical, cowardly, content-at-home Pokey is a foil to Gumby, the plucky, optimistic, Determinator, and vice-versa.
Source: Western Animation / Gumby -
The Cowardly Sidekick is often what happens when the Plucky Comic Relief isn't so... well, plucky.
Source: Cowardly Sidekick -
Cowardly Sidekick: Quickclaw, just like his Saturday Supercade and Pitfall II incarnations, though he switches between this and Plucky Comic Relief.
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