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Another word for craven

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craven

modif.

fearful, fainthearted, pusillanimous, yellow*; see cowardly 1, 2, timid 1. See syn. study at cowardly.

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Another word for craven

adjective

Ignobly lacking in courage:

chickenhearted, cowardly, dastardly, faint-hearted, lily-livered, pusillanimous, unmanly. (Slang) chicken, gutless, yellow, yellow-bellied. See fear

noun

An ignoble, uncourageous person:

coward, dastard, funk, poltroon. (Slang) chicken, yellow-belly. See fear

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Panic slowly crossed his craven countenance.
Whitaker, LL.D., F.S.A., History of the District of Craven (ed.
The province was soon divided into three coast counties: Berkeley, extending from the Stono river to the Sewee and including Charleston; Craven to the north of the Sewee; and Colleton to the south of the Stono.
All these lines approach the town from the north and east through an unattractive industrial district, but the central Wales branch of the London & North-Western railway from Craven Arms in entering it on the west passes through some beautiful woodlands and then skirts the bay, having parallel to it for the last 3 m.
Ackerman, Naples and the Campagna Felice (1816); Craven, Tour through the Southern Provinces of Naples (1821); R.

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