Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.
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- adjective Resembling a
poltroon ;cowardly .
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Examples
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(That Moore hedged his bet by making that solution ultimately inadequate seemed — to me — poltroonish rather than profound.)
Matthew Yglesias » National Review’s Best Conservative Movies 2009
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(That Moore hedged his bet by making that solution ultimately inadequate seemed — to me — poltroonish rather than profound.)
Matthew Yglesias » National Review’s Best Conservative Movies 2009
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In real life he is the WWE's majority owner, but on TV he was a character in its long-running soap opera, playing the poltroonish boss, "Mr. McMahon."
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She is in for some rough questioning unless the Republicans engage in their usual poltroonish behavior.
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Mencken's audience was not one of poltroonish ignoramuses; rather, he wrote for the intelligent few.
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It is not inconceivable, indeed, that religion will one day cease to be a poltroonish acquiescence and become a vigorous and insistent criticism.
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I hope he hasn't decamped out the back with his baggage train … like some poltroonish mountebank.
Jules Crittenden 2009
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Annemarie’s tears dried, but her tongue retained its sting; and in the days that followed she drove home his crime to her brother, with wordy force: his ingratitude, his cowardice, his age, the poltroonish figure he was going to cut: till the Professor felt as if she had been saying these things to him all his life.
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