craven

Example Sentences

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Musk said Sir Ed was "a craven coward".

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025

These craven handovers will have an entirely predictable result: They will only encourage further extortionate suits against news organizations.

From Salon • May 24, 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

And even if Ser Osmund proved an utter craven, he would be no worse than Ser Boros Blount, currently residing in a dungeon at Rosby.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin