poltroon 的 2 个定义
- a wretched coward; craven.
- marked by utter cowardice.
poltroon 近义词
chicken
更多poltroon例句
- Joe tried to grab him with the boathook, but it was useless, and the unhappy poltroon's body was whirled away.
- "Then you have been playing the poltroon," he says savagely.
- He insulted you, and then he behaved like a poltroon down at Silverbridge, and I will not have you know him any more.
- But I can't consent to pass for a fool; and still more not for a poltroon—You'll excuse the little hint.'
- My error—and I 'll not forgive myself in haste for it—was the belief that an upstart need not of necessity be a poltroon.