poltroonery

What has not ended — what seems endless — is Republican bad faith and poltroonery.

Still he hesitated, though he told himself that it was not by boggling at trifles that men arrived at great ends--nor by poltroonery.

Franz plucked up a spirit; and considering that his shoulders had at all events the score to pay, his poltroonery passed into a species of audacity.

Stanley was very much moved by this generous offer and the anxiety of the king to make amends for Lamboozi's poltroonery and thieving conduct.

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.