poltroon
Example Sentences
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We’ve been remarking on the tendency of powerful institutions to act like poltroons when confronted by bullies.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2023
“Complete and total catastrophe” sounds about right for such a conflagration of poltroons as that.
From Fox News • Jul. 15, 2019
But filling the canvas with idiots, crooks and poltroons has the strange effect of diminishing Reynaud's own stature.
From Time Magazine Archive
In loving detail, the reader was encouraged to hate these poltroons.
From Time Magazine Archive
He’d be damned if this bunch of poltroons were going to keep him from throwing his hat in the ring.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing poltroon
Jane Eyre
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