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How to use poltroon in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word poltroon? Here are some examples.

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It encourages people to mail or email white feathers to Jonah to remind him that he is a lily-livered poltroon.
I don't think it needs to be described in that barbarous language, which has become infected by that awful poltroon, Foucault.
Falstaff, the archetypal braggart, poltroon, toper and talker, wit and source of wit in others, is usually a figure larger than life.
He hardly resembles Lt. Harry Flashman, a duplicitous poltroon who hides during battle and contrives to claim others' glories.
It could be readily adapted for the modern-day poltroon of your choice.
Thirty years ago, the incomparable George MacDonald Fraser began the Flashman Papers, going over much the same ground as Henty but with a poltroon as a hero.
What kind of poltroon runs out the clock in a pickup game?
The sounds outside had ceased...But somebody had been there, and she proposed to look into the matter thoroughly. There was nothing of the poltroon about Adela Shannon Cork.
Examples from Classical Literature
He had slipped away like the poltroon that he was, leaving Peter to his fate.
A traitor is a despicable character, while a poltroon is only contemptible.
Far be from me such disgrace as that, like a poltroon, I should stain my arms by flight.
The poltroon, like the scabbard, is an incumbrance when once the sword is drawn.
If it was that poltroon, Ferdinand, I would have him thrown out by my lackeys.
He preys only on the smallest quadrupeds, and with all his voracity he is an arrant poltroon.
He had played the villain, perhaps, but he would not play the poltroon.
This is the charge which will always make the poltroon squirm.
He was certainly no poltroon, but he felt that she was right.
The likes o' ye an' that poltroon, Jay, up there in New York.
There is nothing beyond that door, with thou, poltroon, to which death in this little chamber would not be preferable.
But the Poltroon with the white wig was not out of his pother yet.
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