craven
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El-Sayed told me that before this race, he didn’t “understand just how craven big money could get.”
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Musk said Sir Ed was "a craven coward".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
These people are craven dummies, but they do make up a good swath of Canada’s eligible voters.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2025
Webb and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson had two options: Mimic the 1937 cartoon shot for shot and be slammed for the craven inessentiality of such an exercise, or change anything and face fans’ wrath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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