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craven

/krey-vuhn/US // ˈkreɪ vən //UK // (ˈkreɪvən) //

螃蟹,蹩脚,蹩脚的,渴望

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a coward.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make cowardly.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • While momagers, stage moms, and moms craven for their own fame developed into their own, negative reality-TV trope over the time that Keeping Up… has been on air, Jenner has managed to turn that stereotype into a triumph for herself.

  • It’s an embarrassment to have someone who is either so gullible–or so craven–representing our city in a visible way.

  • Anyway, there’s also something craven about encouraging people to work harder and longer hours during a freakin’ pandemic.

  • It might be helpful, now, if a few of these craven Republicans had the stones to say it.

  • Maybe he could no longer bear the craven truth about himself.

  • Film stars and politicians are still bussed in to sell their products, in the most craven way possible.

  • And the President took Pelosi's way, not the highway of craven calculation.

  • Six miles from Craven Cottage, where Fulham play their home games, is the stadium where this soccer revolution began 10 years ago.

  • I will write again soon and add to the melancholy picture of a once powerful nation shuddering with craven fears.

  • Karl replied: In a bad way are we with our King for he is both halt & craven.

  • Then spake Vandrad: The King is not craven, but neither he is victorious.

  • Or, if dialect poetry must be concerned only with rustic life, was the Craven dalesman to have no voice in the matter?

  • He had punished a man for a base and craven act; he had challenged him and met him in fair fight.