poltroon
Example Sentences
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Apparently not to be confused or conflated with poltroon...
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2018
A poltroon was not a good thing to be called.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2017
There’s a chance that your antagonist will post the news that you are a poltroon and, whoops, there go all your dinner-party invitations.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2014
Maxwell is a goon, a berk, a gurgling bore, a ham-eyed poltroon and a great big swaggering chump.
From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2010
What a miserable little poltroon had fear, engendered of unjust punishment, made of me in those days!
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing poltroon
Jane Eyre
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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O'Reilly's Lexicon of Epithets
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