poltroonery

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Having finished his repast, he arose from the table, and going to his apartment, proceeded to prepare the placard in which he intended to make known the poltroonery of Botts to the public.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George

He was being punished for the crimes of his youth and for the poltroonery that had kept him from turning Jake out of the house.

From The Fighting Edge by Raine, William MacLeod

The singular confession of a man who regretted his impertinence because he discovered his adversary was a better swordsman, would, under any other code or in any other country, have argued poltroonery.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James

Soliman, however, soon repented of his poltroonery, and roused the war-cry among some of his tribes.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

How should it possibly, by any stretch of poltroonery and baseness, be otherwise?

From My Contemporaries In Fiction by Murray, David Christie