poltroon

  • 71craven — Synonyms and related words: base, caitiff, chicken, coward, dastard, dastardly, dunghill, dunghilly, funk, funker, gutless, lily livered, poltroon, poltroonish, pusillanimous, quitter, recreant, spunkless, unmanly …

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  • 72funk — Synonyms and related words: Milquetoast, abject fear, affright, alarm, awe, baby, back out, big baby, blench, blink, blue funk, boggle, change color, chicken, chicken liver, chicken out, consternation, coward, cowardice, craven, cringe, curdle… …

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  • 73milksop — Synonyms and related words: Lord Fauntleroy, Milquetoast, Percy, ass, baby, big baby, born fool, buffoon, caitiff, chicken, chicken liver, clown, coward, cream puff, crybaby, dastard, doodle, doormat, dull tool, effeminate, egregious ass, figure… …

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  • 74recreant — Synonyms and related words: Sabbath breaker, apostate, arrant coward, atheist, atheistic, backslider, backsliding, bad egg, bad lot, base, black sheep, blackguardly, blasphemer, blasphemous, bolter, caitiff, collaborationist, collaborative,… …

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  • 75sneak — Synonyms and related words: arrant coward, blackguard, caitiff, clandestine, couch, covert, cower, craven, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, cur, dastard, devil, fink, furtive, glide, go on tiptoe, grass, grovel, gumshoe, heel, hole and corner, hush… …

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  • 76spunkless — Synonyms and related words: Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, apathetic, benumbed, blah, blase, chicken, comatose, coward, craven, desensitized, detached, disinterested, dull, gritless, gutless, heartless, hebetudinous, hopeless, in a stupor,… …

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  • 77unmanly — Synonyms and related words: afraid, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, craven, daunted, dismayed, effeminate, epicene, fainthearted, fearful, funking, funky, gutless, henhearted, intimidated, lily livered, milk livered, milksoppish …

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  • 78chicken — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. fowl, cock, hen, pullet; fryer, broiler, capon; slang, coward (See cowardice). See birds, food. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A barnyard fowl] Syn. chick, hen, rooster, pullet, cock, cockerel, capon,… …

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  • 79cowardice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Shrinking from pain or danger Nouns 1. cowardice, cowardliness, pusillanimity, poltroonery, baseness; dastardliness; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear, white feather, faint heart, timidity. Informal …

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  • 80craven — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. & n. See cowardice. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. fearful, fainthearted, pusillanimous, yellow*; see cowardly 1 , 2 , timid 1 . See Synonym Study at cowardly . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a.… …

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