poltroonery
Example Sentences
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The singular confession of a man who regretted his impertinence because he discovered his adversary was a better swordsman, would, under any other code or in any other country, have argued poltroonery.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Charles James Lever
To hold aloof from them would have been poltroonery.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell
Just as the Allies poised for the last tremendous all-satisfying coup de grâce the Empire put up her hands and whined the word that had become the world-wide synonym for poltroonery, “Kamerad!”
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
He was being punished for the crimes of his youth and for the poltroonery that had kept him from turning Jake out of the house.
From The Fighting Edge by William MacLeod Raine
His poltroonery stood him in the stead of a life-preserver.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
