poltroon in English

noun
1
an utter coward.
It encourages people to mail or email white feathers to Jonah to remind him that he is a lily-livered poltroon .
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1. Noonlikes to be regarded as a poltroon.

2. You are a poltroon to abuse your strength.

3. No one likes to be regarded as a poltroon.

4. 17 synonyms for Coward: wimp, chicken, scaredy-cat, sneak, funk, craven, pussy, yellow-belly, poltroon

5. " Coward! Poltroon !'squeaked Reepicheep. " Give me my sword and free my paws if you dare. "

6. Coward: 1 n a person who shows fear or timidity Types: show 9 types hide 9 types cur a Cowardly and despicable person dastard a despicable Coward craven , poltroon , recreant an abject Coward quaker , trembler one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear shrinking violet , shy person someone who shrinks from familiarity with others

7. Frizzy straight-cut masses that would have charmed Rossetti abounded, and one gentleman, who was pointed out to Graham under the mysterious title of an "Amorist", wore his hair in two becoming plaits a la Marguerite.When Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., the celebrated Victorian soldier, scoundrel, Amorist, and self-confessed poltroon, began to write his …