poltroonery

1 M. de Suffren had not heard anything about her captain's poltroonery; the flag had been immediately replaced; he answered that none of the French vessels had surrendered.

2 How should it possibly, by any stretch of poltroonery and baseness, be otherwise?

3 The true lynchers are the plain people, and at the bottom of the sport there is nothing more noble than the mob man's chronic and ineradicable poltroonery.

4 So much moral weakness and political changeableness, so much poltroonery or indulgence towards evil and blind passions disquieted serious minds, and profoundly shook the public credit.

5 Dinwiddie, recounting the affair to Lord Albemarle, says that Washington, being ignorant of French, was deceived by the interpreter, who, through poltroonery, suppressed the word assassination.

6 With murder in his remorseless heart, he yet hoped against hope, out of his very poltroonery, that murder had not been done.

7 My prudence appeared to me the merest poltroonery, my remark about 'begging' the most finicking absurdity, my failure to accept Ted's offer the most reckless and offensive stupidity.

8 At tea in the dismantled sitting-room, though he was going out to supper, he ate quite as much tea as usual, from sheer poltroonery.

9 What has not ended — what seems endless — is Republican bad faith and poltroonery.

10 Coconnas, an Italian, instead of inviting contempt for his poltroonery, inspires aversion for his crimes.

11 The only thing that at all tended to shake this conviction, was the extraordinary poltroonery of our new captive.

12 It is natural that she should despise his poltroonery and feel grateful to me," was his thought; "but, after all, it isn't likely she holds any emotion other than simple gratitude.

13 Was it poltroonery to desert the cause of ruin for that of growth? of essential slavery for ordered freedom? of disintegration for vital and enlarging unity?

14 Whether justly or unjustly, the poltroonery of the Franc-Taupin became proverbial, as evidenced by the favorite song of Bridget's brother.

15 He died a hundred deaths in his time, and much of his life was passed in such misery as only cultivated poltroonery can breed.

16 To hold aloof from them would have been poltroonery.

17 Having finished his repast, he arose from the table, and going to his apartment, proceeded to prepare the placard in which he intended to make known the poltroonery of Botts to the public.

18 I had made the wife see the husband's craven poltroonery, and the husband the wife's heart infidelity; and I let them live for their mutual distrust and punishment.

19 He was being punished for the crimes of his youth and for the poltroonery that had kept him from turning Jake out of the house.

20 decried the poltroonery of those politicians who caved into pressure from the special interests

1 卑怯

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2 胆怯

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3 胆小

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4 怯懦

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