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Examples for "craven "
Examples for "craven "
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.
1 The recreant or the dreamer complains that he has no real chance.
2 A conspirator who wanted to be safe was a recreant in disguise.
3 I were false and recreant if I went not to their assistance.
4 Only by being recreant to every sentiment of honor, gratitude and humanity.
5 The magistrates were recreant to their trust, he has performed their functions.
1 I am, I confess, a poltroon in my affections; I dread changes.
2 On the other hand, Burle fenced indifferently and passed for a poltroon .
3 But she only laughs and mocks, and calls me a little poltroon .
4 The Duke of Parma is weak, and a poltroon , - he will not stir.
5 Every Englishman I ever knew was a liar, and a sneaking poltroon .
6 Not if the ship is undermanned, and the captain a senile poltroon .
7 He was certainly no poltroon , but he felt that she was right.
8 As well ask what makes one man a Napoleon, another a poltroon .
9 The young poltroon has lost his resolution in his lovesick fever.
10 But ere he slept the honest man gained a victory over the poltroon .
11 I am a coward, a craven poltroon ; but, God, how I love you.
12 Audrey condemned the door for a senile lunatic, and herself for a poltroon .
13 I challenged him to fight a duel, but the poltroon would not accept.
14 If you play the poltroon , everything is over between us, Norris.
15 What a poltroon , indeed, was Narcissus beside you at that moment.
16 No lying poltroon , but a courageous man whom you all love.
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