How To Use Poltroon In A Sentence
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Being dismissed as a liar and poltroon translates to “respect”?
Think Progress » Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist
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Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
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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
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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
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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
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Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this
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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
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Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate ...
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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.
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It encourages people to mail or email white feathers to Jonah to remind him that he is a lily-livered poltroon.
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Bertram disarmed, outheroding Charles de Moor in the Robbers, befaces the collected knights of St. Anselm, (all in complete armour) and so, by pure dint of black looks, he outdares them into passive poltroons.
Biographia Literaria
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It doesn't matter what kind of poltroon parks his or her butt in the Oval Office, or how they get in there; they will be presented to the people as a figure of moral authority and gravitas -- and be accepted as such by large swathes of the public.
Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
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The only way someone will ever get through to a “suck on this, filthy shvatz goyim!” poltroon like Tom Friedman is if they do a Danny Pearl on him.
Matthew Yglesias » Peres: Gaza Operation is Collective Punishment, and I Love It
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Coward! Poltroon !'squeaked Reepicheep. " Give me my sword and free my paws if you dare.
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Parlementeer, accused him not only of poltroonery and tyranny, but even of concussion (official plunder of money); which accusations it was easier to get 'quashed' by backstairs Influences than to get answered: neither could the thoughts, or even the tongues, of men be tied.
The French Revolution
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I don't think it needs to be described in that barbarous language, which has become infected by that awful poltroon, Foucault.
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We would have thought it vile poltroonery and macaronism to have worn wigs -- to say nothing of powder -- unless, indeed, the peruke was a true Malplaquet club or Dettingen scratch.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this
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I knew what they were both thinking, for I was thinking it myself; he was a yellowed-belly poltroon.
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You are scarcely better than your chancellor, who is a thief and a poltroon!
David Cameron quotes Benny Hill song, but it's not the PM's greatest hit
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“The only way someone will ever get through to a “suck on this, filthy shvatz goyim!” poltroon like Tom Friedman is if they do a Danny Pearl on him.”
Matthew Yglesias » Peres: Gaza Operation is Collective Punishment, and I Love It
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For reasons best known to themselves, the playlisting poltroons of national radio recently passed on Heartbeat, the new single from this Norwegian singer.
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Tyrrell is best known now as an insane Clinton-basher, but he became sort of famous in the '70s by fancying himself the reincarnation of H.L. Mencken, writing a lot of Carter-bashing columns where he called everyone a "poltroon" or "the honorable" something.
Funditry
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His defection aggrieved her so bitterly, that the fiercest of her wrath turned upon him; and after a wrangle wherein all the parties concerned had made liberal use of those "aculeate and proper" words against which the wary Bacon warns his quarrelling readers, she flounced away into the darkness of the small hours of the stormy December morning, loudly avowing her determination never to see a sight of the ugly, dirty, mane-spirited poltroon, or open her lips to him as long as she had an eye or a tongue in her head.
Strangers at Lisconnel
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Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate ...
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I have to share ‘World's Greatest’ rights with a million poltroons.
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Abraham Lincoln was called a poltroon, a hypocrite, because he was deliberate, painstaking and cautious about issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D., ("The Black Spurgeon.") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City
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Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
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In the end, though, we can hardly blame the old poltroon for trying it on via his lawyer over the Culshaw fiasco.
Eamonn Holmes gets the BBC jokes eating away at him banned
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Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
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Plague on it!" cried Telemachus, laying the bow aside with an air of vexation, "must I be called a poltroon all my life, or is it that I have not yet attained the full measure of my strength?
Stories from the Odyssey
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Falstaff, the archetypal braggart, poltroon, toper and talker, wit and source of wit in others, is usually a figure larger than life.
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I will call the poltroon in the White House scum, however.)
Balkinization
