(n.) A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n.
(v. t.) To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
(2) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(3) Ankle ligament damage has already denied Stockdale his first involvement with the national side – the Fulham goalkeeper fears he could be absent for up to two months having only just broken into the first team at Craven Cottage – and allowed Carson a return to the fold.
(4) Since the initially peaceful demonstrations against his regime began more than three years ago, he has proved himself, by turns, foolish, craven and vicious.
(5) "They falsely suggested that Mr Watkins took this craven stance to the point of refusing to condemn death threats which Mr Woolas claimed had been made against him because he was 'in the pay' of a rich Arab sheikh," she said.
(6) I think the real reason was that the administration did not want to embarrass the Saudis – and for the US news media to be complicit in that is craven."
(7) To examine this issue, mutations that disrupt the addition of amino acids by ribosome frameshifting were analyzed for their effects on particle assembly and Gag processing in a mammalian expression system (J. W. Wills, R. C. Craven, and J.
(8) He is near embarrassed by the craven nature of it, despite the fact that he quit two shows – Popworld (2001–2006) and Never Mind the Buzzcocks (2006–2009) – before we could get bored with him, going off to do bigger and more ambitious things each time.
(9) Sir Philip Craven, who has been president of the Bonn-based IPC since 1991, said it was time to re-examine the language used to describe Paralympians.
(10) The documents imply that even craven European leaders believe the US demands go too far.
(11) He might break with New Labour’s craven appeasement of the industrial lobbies and log-rollers.
(12) The doping culture that is polluting Russian sport stems from the Russian government and has now been uncovered in not one but two independent reports commissioned by the Wada.” Craven is, of course, right to apportion blame where it is due – with the Russian state.
(13) If that happens, only the most craven board back in New York would stand up and salute the wizard of Oz.
(14) The Welshman had criticised Fulham for a "lack of ambition" after leaving Craven Cottage in 2011 but the same cannot be said of Stoke who turned on the style in another impressive performance.
(15) I come from sport," said Craven, who represented Great Britain at wheelchair basketball at five Paralympics between 1972 and 1988.
(16) It’s not so much investing Wong with superhero status as asking why a bunch of teenagers and twentysomethings have been willing to confront the might of China, at considerable cost, while governments are craven.
(17) "Unbeknown to us Fulham were in the middle of a financial crisis and in serious peril of merging with QPR, with Craven Cottage to be sold for residential development, all courtesy of the club chairman (and, quite conveniently, property developer) David Bulstrode.
(18) Craven called for use of the word in connection with the Paralympics, which begins on Wednesday with an opening ceremony titled The Enlightenment, to be phased out.
(19) As ever, he will be razor sharp, ready to dart and pounce at just the right time, come kick-off against Fulham at Craven Cottageon Saturday, hoping for another goal to add to his wall chart.
(20) I don’t think that the only way you can have a good and constructive relationship with China is by behaving in that sort of craven way.” Patten, who is now chancellor of the University of Oxford, said Britain’s “increasing disinclination” to inject principles into its foreign policy was enabling the ever-more repressive and aggressive policies coming out of Beijing.
Poltroon
Definition:
(n.) An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch.
(a.) Base; vile; contemptible; cowardly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty years ago, the incomparable George MacDonald Fraser began the Flashman Papers, going over much the same ground as Henty but with a poltroon as a hero.
(2) When you’re some Heritage Foundation poltroon justifying a law that denies service to people based on who they love because they can obtain alternate services from other businesses, you’re just using market-speak for Separate But Equal.