poltroonery

I count on the court to see the difference between bad judgment and poltroonery.

And the poltroonery in certain quarters of what ought to be the other side is just sad.

On the other hand, poltroonery is the acknowledging an inferiority to be incurable.

Even more effective than the fiscal barrier is the barrier of poltroonery.

But these nasty props and plasters the doctors sell - why, they are just badges of poltroonery.

He was roundly abused and accused of wimpishness and poltroonery.

Poltroonery dislikes the wise.

Chitterwick's poltroonery went unnoticed.

Al Khazraj, who accused them of cowardice, began to sing in verse of their unmanliness and poltroonery.

But the two cases, when put side by side, are enough to indicate the falsity and poltroonery of this eternal modern argument from what is in fashion.

Foot opened his campaign on 30 October with an attack on "the complacency, the corruption and the poltroonery of the Tory Government".

"Your Majesty, your Majesty," he said, "are you going to tolerate this mutiny, this poltroonery?

President Bush and Governor NotBush are getting away with the same wimpish poltroonery that incensed media parsons in the Perot affair.

Lansdowne argued that although the electorate might prefer the Conservative party if the dropped food duties from their tariff reform plan, it would open them to accusations of bad faith and "poltroonery".

The brothers paused, as if fearing to lift the arras; but Yadar, unhesitating, held it aside and passed into the chamber; and the twain followed him quickly as if for shame of their poltroonery.

But the truth was that I could not sit still and hear men such as my companions, to say nothing of myself, spoken of thus by a bloated cur, who called himself a prince and boasted of his own poltroonery.

Gardoni also took the role of Corentin in the British premiere of Meyerbeer's Dinorah (Le pardon), at Covent Garden, in 1859, in which Chorley praised his 'peasant poltroonery'.

Justifying his turpitude with equal amounts of cleverness and effrontery, he loudly proclaimed that his poltroonery being nothing other than the desire to preserve himself, it were perfectly impossible for anyone in his right senses to condemn it for a fault.

But when his passions began to yield, his self-indulgence began to take the form of laziness; and it was not many years before he lay with never a struggle in the chains of the evil power which had now reduced him to moral poltroonery.

Lastly, imagine this coward saved, dwelling within a few miles of the son whom he had deserted, and yet utterly unable to rescue or even to communicate with him because of the poltroonery of those among whom he had refuged."