poltroons

It is a pity that H.L. Mencken is not alive to cast his cynical and skeptical eye on these "poltroons" as he frequently termed them.

Bipartisan Hypocrisy Reigns In New York Troopergate and Choppergate Scandals 2007

The "lily-livered heroes" and the "poltroons" are left out of the laborious comparison, perhaps because none of either can be found in Shakspere sufficiently like the original types in Beaumont and

The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876

Could anyone really blame al-Qaeda now if they started targeting all the morally repulsive Jewish progressives (a.k.a. poltroons) here?

Matthew Yglesias » Ground Attack 2009

It had nothing to do with Google executives being gutless poltroons quaking in fear at the prospect of being decapitated by a maniacal Muslim.

Google fixes its Islam “bug” « Anglican Samizdat 2010

The supporters of Iraq invasion are disgraced as fools, poltroons, dupes, dummies, thugs, crooks and monkey-suckers.

Matthew Yglesias » Alan Wolfe on Liberal Hawks 2009

Then there is the sheer silliness of these self-primping poltroons.

Simon Hoggart's week: Creepy and silly, but Mandelson is never boring 2010

Remember that our balanced, two chamber political system with its doctrine of Ministerial responsibility was also wrecked by NewLabour, so people like you and I have had to watch, helplessly and with no recourse, other than through violent revolution, whilst this megalomaniac clown and his fellow poltroons have systematically trashed our country and everything we value.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

It really is quite remarkable what a pack of poltroons we have masquerading as representatives of the people of the United States isn't it?

Congressional Dems Willing To "Compromise" On Iraq 2009

This pretty well shows ya that there's no hope at all that this body of poltroons will do what it takes to cut off funding for the war.

MoveOn Hits Back At Senate: "No Wonder Public Approval Of Congress Is Tanking" 2009

I wonder how much of his agenda will Obama be able to achieve with these bunch of lily livered poltroons.

It's Official: Lieberman Keeps Homeland Security Chairmanship 2009