craven
contemptibly cowardly and lacking courage
Word origin: From Old French cravante, overthrown or defeated.
Craven in a sentence
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His craven retreat left his companions to face the danger alone.
Critics denounced the senator's craven silence in the face of an obvious injustice.
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Far from being the revolutionary thinker his admirers claimed, the philosopher was in fact quite blank, defending the traditional doctrines of his teachers without challenge.
Using “craven” well
Craven is a strongly contemptuous word for cowardice, harsher than timid. It pairs with pusillanimous and fainthearted and implies moral failure, not mere nervousness.
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