A big copout is to throw on some sort of jersey and be a sports figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Gellman: All Hallows' Sleeve] Reference

Let's hope that his conversion is real and not a "copout".    From Wordnik.com.  [UnionLeader.com -- RSS feeds -- New Hampshire news, business and sports] Reference

I think if we would pull out, that would be a copout.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2004] Reference

KING: So you think it might, Shaun, look like a copout?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2007] Reference

Or do you agree with the Republicans who that's a copout?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2009] Reference

Because the copout is to say, well, I didn ` t have that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2008] Reference

Seems a copout that he's a more acceptable type of wizard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spoilery Pottery Initial Thoughts] Reference

The lets use nukes mentality is a mindless copout. kathleen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blitzer: As the race comes into focus, the gloves come off] Reference

But I said to myself Bukowski starving is even more of a copout.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Calls Me Bukowski] Reference

BILL PRESS, SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO: I think it's a total copout.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2006] Reference

I usually look on things like this as a copout for lazy writers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quick Hits – Dark Reign: FF, Dead of Night: Werewolf by Night, The Irredeemable, Flash: Rebirth, and More] Reference

Never take the copout clause of retaining your Western passports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malaysian bloggers attacked] Reference

But are he and other troubled people using addictions as a copout?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2006] Reference

What a lame and reaching copout on causality and first principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Perspective on Origins] Reference

That would be a copout, Giants defensive end Michael Strahan said.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think, Cara (ph), it's a copout what you said.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 15, 2009] Reference

It may be a copout on my part, but I think it is the way things are.    From Wordnik.com.  [A quasi-religious movement] Reference

Nice copout by albury smith on Wednesday, Sep 3, 2008 at 3: 47: 35 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paging Terry Gilliam, or Why Mother Jones Can't Have It Both Ways] Reference

OK, that's an intellectual copout on their part, as far as I'm concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2002] Reference

Bipartisanship is a copout we can no longer afford to let them hide behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broken Promises and Phony Excuses!] Reference

Your response has amounted to 'Show me where Dennett admits it's a copout'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blurring the Line] Reference

Unidentified Man #5: If there is no hero in the end, that would be a copout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Years Of 'Lost' Time? Fans Brace For The Finale] Reference

So he is in Barack Obama's face on that point, because he think it's a copout.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2009] Reference

Joe Andrews, the national chairman of the DNC, called them 'a contrived copout. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [God's Country] Reference

KURTZ: Was that cover a copout, a marketing ploy or a profound cultural statement?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2006] Reference

Is it a bold move for a president who usually stands by his team, or is it a copout?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2005] Reference

MADDOW: Well, I think to say that this is a media problem is a little bit of a copout.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007] Reference

That was a copout; they didn't practice pure Marxism because they knew it wouldn't work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karl Marx Defended ~ Reluctantly] Reference

Why, pray tell, is it a copout for the Majority Leader to put this decision to the caucus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reid Spokesperson: Democratic Senators May Vote On Lieberman's Fate In Full Caucus Meeting] Reference

I agree with your clarification, but I thought it a copout when I read your original sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Seattle NAACP: "We Didn't Do A Lot, But We Held On"] Reference

I actually thought when people said they had, that it was a disease, that it was just a copout.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2002] Reference

Bipartisan commissions are often derided as a copout, but they work when Congress lacks the will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Bull Campaign] Reference

So I think that ` s a copout and that ` s just blame the victim all over the again by the defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2008] Reference

And this is not a copout, but he's in orientation, which means you won't hear from him for a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 16, 2003] Reference

That's absolutely right, this notion that she's introducing her girlness in this race is such a copout.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2007] Reference

GORE: Well, you know, the number one cause of this problem is the need for better parenting, and that's not a copout.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The `Des Moines Register' Presidential Candidates Debate - January 8, 2000] Reference