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poltroon
Synonyms and Antonyms of poltroon
- a military commander who was so poltroon that he surrendered without having fired so much as a single shot
chicken, chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], 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
poltroon
Synonyms and Antonyms of poltroon
- those poltroons in the state legislature who have caved in to bigotry on this important issue of basic civil rights
cream puff, milquetoast, pushover, pussy [slang], weakling, wimp
ostrich, scaramouch (or scaramouche)
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