A person who lacks courage.
Lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful.
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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