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craven
Synonyms and Antonyms of craven
- a craven refusal to deliver the unwelcome news personally
chicken, chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow
brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, hardy, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous
Synonym Discussion of craven
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- a cowardly failure to stand up for principle
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- the pusillanimous fear of a future full of possibility
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- secretly despised her own craven yes-men
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- a dastardly attack on unarmed civilians
craven
Synonyms and Antonyms of craven
- a craven who ran away and left everyone else behind to deal with the crisis
cream puff, milquetoast, pushover, pussy [slang], weakling, wimp
ostrich, scaramouch (or scaramouche)
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