cravenness

Example Sentences

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As we’ve seen time and time again, consumer companies are notable not for their steadfastness in defending the public interest, but their cravenness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

But considering the stakes now, the cravenness of their opportunism can still shock even after all of this time.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2022

We won’t here delve into the cause of congressional cravenness, except to say that the individual ambitions of careerist lawmakers has made lawmaking seem rather too icky.

From Fox News • Feb. 18, 2019

The cravenness, incompetence, corruption, dysfunction, insanity — all of it.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2018

He heard for days the manager's squawking, and saw before him the manager's cravenness.

From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.