poltroon
noun
a wretched coward; craven.
poltroonery
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a word derived from
poltroon.
Example Sentences
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You believed rather the tales you heard of our poltroonery, and impotence of body and mind.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
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
He would have added words, but dreaded getting words back that might rake up old scores, as when they last met at Hollymead, exposing his poltroonery.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
The nation paid a pension of £600 a year to Mr. Fraser as indemnity for its Government’s poltroonery.
From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole
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
