poltroon

How To Use poltroon In A Sentence

• Being dismissed as a liar and poltroon translates to “respect”? Think Progress » Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist
• Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
• When Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., the celebrated Victorian soldier, scoundrel, amorist, and self-confessed poltroon, began to write his memoirs early in the present century, he set to work with a discipline remarkable in one whose life and conduct were, to put it charitably, haphazard and irregular. Watershed
• I was delighted to discover that a ‘poltroon’ is ‘an ignoble, uncourageous person; a base coward’; high praise indeed for a deluded, immoral creep like Peter Hain. On Peter Hain
• Umbrellas may be 'hedged about' by cobweb statutes; I will not swear it is not so; there may exist laws that make such things property; but sure I am that the hissing contempt, the loud-mouthed indignation of all civilised society, 'would sibilate and roar at the bloodless poltroon who should engage law on his side to obtain for him the restitution of a-- lent Umbrella! Umbrellas and Their History
• Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this
• A French abbe lays it down that Alexander was a poltroon; a phthisicky professor, holding at every word a bottle of sal volatile to his nose, lectures on strength. The Works of Frederich Schiller
• Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate ...
• The new history falsely portrayed the British administrators and armed forces of the 19th Century as either tyrants or poltroons, and the settlers as heroic refugees fleeing from an oppressive government in the British Isles.
• It encourages people to mail or email white feathers to Jonah to remind him that he is a lily-livered poltroon.