[
UK
/pəʊltɹˈuːn/
]
NOUN
- an abject coward
ADJECTIVE
- characterized by complete cowardliness
How To Use poltroon In A Sentence
- Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this
- I will call the poltroon in the White House scum, however.) Balkinization
- Falstaff, the archetypal braggart, poltroon, toper and talker, wit and source of wit in others, is usually a figure larger than life.
- Plague on it!" cried Telemachus, laying the bow aside with an air of vexation, "must I be called a poltroon all my life, or is it that I have not yet attained the full measure of my strength? Stories from the Odyssey
- Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
- In the end, though, we can hardly blame the old poltroon for trying it on via his lawyer over the Culshaw fiasco. Eamonn Holmes gets the BBC jokes eating away at him banned
- Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
- Abraham Lincoln was called a poltroon, a hypocrite, because he was deliberate, painstaking and cautious about issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D., ("The Black Spurgeon.") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City
- I have to share ‘World's Greatest’ rights with a million poltroons.
- Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate ...