poltroon
noun
a wretched coward; craven.
poltroonery
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a word derived from
poltroon.
Example Sentences
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I had made the wife see the husband's craven poltroonery, and the husband the wife's heart infidelity; and I let them live for their mutual distrust and punishment.
From By Right of Sword by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
Then the old soldier, half in despair at this poltroonery, proposed another plan.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
As well might the continual defeats of the British in the first months of the present war in South Africa be held as a proof of British poltroonery.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
How should it possibly, by any stretch of poltroonery and baseness, be otherwise?
From My Contemporaries In Fiction by David Christie Murray
His poltroonery stood him in the stead of a life-preserver.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
