The people at risk are children, and euphemisms for the word "children" are regularly used in this context because of a hypocritical, cowardly attempt to avoid the disturbing image of children having intercourse.

The Indonesian foreign ministry described the attack as a sorry and cowardly attempt at intimidating Indonesia, and said Indonesia would not succumb to such a threat.

That is a shameful enough act for any Tarlan to perform because it is considered to be a cowardly and dishonorable attempt to diminish personal guilt and avoid just punishment.

A low and cowardly attempt to sabotage the Gryffindor Seeker!

A short second encounter with the pirates alleviates Obelix's boredom, despite their cowardly attempt at retreat.

I fail to detect a single healthy impulse in the cowardly attempt to transcend the physical world.

The supposition was that this cowardly attempt had been perpetrated, or certainly instigated, by the Jorths.

During the Sunday Word's painstaking investigations, the minister made a cowardly and dishonourable attempt to throw us off the scent.

Instead, he had left assassins within the bounds who attacked General Marius in the dark in a cowardly attempt at murder.