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Meanings of craven in English
Synonyms
Examples for "chicken"
Examples for "chicken"
1
It's difficult to know which comes first in this particular chicken-or-egg scenario.
2
From its natural home in India the chicken spread east and west.
3
Its products include chicken, meat, dairy products, meat-type ducks and veterinary drugs.
4
For the main course, there is the option of chicken or fish.
5
Government and health officials have stressed that well-cooked chicken cannot infect people.
1
Cigarette was never yet ungrateful; it is the sin of the coward.
2
It is better that way, though it may be the coward's way.
3
He was no traitor; he was no coward; he was no liar.
4
Education subdues or obliterates the best of fighting in the coward only.
5
Too much bravery in man makes a bully; not enough a coward.
1
The pastiest milquetoast emerges ready to scale oil rigs and wrestle crocodiles.
2
At part throttle, this may as well be a milquetoast Malibu sedan.
3
Or will any representative do? His gaze fell on Wensicia's milquetoast husband.
4
Similarly milquetoast messages went out from university officials to their faculty and students.
5
If we are getting a milquetoast fourth quarter what will next year look like?
Usage of craven in English
1
Economic backwardness was taken as holy simplicity; ignoble, craven subservience as piety.
2
Then you understand how craven it is to deny workers minimum wage.
3
Every minister and bureaucrat too self-interested or too craven to speak up.
4
Sourly he accepted defeat, raging in his craven spirit at the necessity.
5
Liar and craven will I dub you throughout the whole of France.
6
Even in her most listless hours she had never been a craven.
7
The craven with desires will offer up bloody sacrifices to it submissively.
8
It is a craven word, overmuch upon the lips of Christian gentlemen.
9
But the country was by no means so craven as Lalor supposed.
10
His manner vacillated between a kind of hateful hostility and craven fawning.
11
If a craven piece of advice, this at least was reassuring news.
12
It is a ghastly thought, that the craven impulse may overcome us.
13
He was certain the craven had been ordered to this fatal exploration.
14
Popular feeling was deeply moved by this craven compliance with French behests.
15
They got out of hand, and there was uproar and craven fear.
16
A craven's knife can slay a queen as easily as a hero's.
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Craven through the time
Craven across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common